What will happen when xylem placed in pure water

1 it swells up and behave like fountain 2 it shrinks and its walls collapse 3 it bursts like RBC 4 it cracked up 5 nothing happen at all Purely concept based

Varun
15 Nov
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  Subham
- 15 Nov
it will swell because out side contains pure Water whereas in xylem there are minerals also with water,So outside is hypotonic w.r.t inside so water comes in to make the tonicity equal.
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- 13 Nov
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- 12 Nov
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- Kallu
- 11 Nov
it swells up
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- 20 Sep
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- 06 Sep
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  Neha
- 05 Sep
It swells up
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