When a Spirogyra filament is placed in a concentrated salt solution for 30 minutes, the cell would become

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When a Spirogyra filament is placed in a concentrated salt solution for 30 minutes, the cell would become plasmolysed. This is because the salt solution has a higher concentration of solutes than the cell, causing water to move out of the cell and into the surrounding solution through osmosis. As a result, the protoplasm and cell membrane shrink and detach from the cell wall, causing the cell to shrink and the cytoplasm to become concentrated. This process is called plasmolysis, and it is reversible if the cell is placed in a hypotonic solution (one with a lower concentration of solutes) to allow water to move back into the cell through osmosis.