Annette observed that if she put salad dressing on her salad in the morning before leaving home, by lunch time she found excess liquid in her container and the greens were wilted. why does this happen?

The correct answer would be - the hypertonic condition will cause the diffusion of the water outside the cell.

Explanation:

Annette found out that salad dressing cause releasing the excess liquid in the container after putting salad dressing in the salad. The salad dressing probably creating the hypertonic solution around the plant cells (salad greens).

The hypertonic solution around the plant cells causes diffusion of the water to diffuse from the cell to the outer cell. The diffusion will create a decrease in the turgor pressure inside the cell which causes greens to wilt.

Thus, the correct answer is - the hypertonic condition will cause the diffusion of the water outside the cell.

interphase

the period of cell growth when the cell synthesizes new molecules and organelles. the cell is not dividing and it constitutes the majority of the time spent in the cell cycle

prophase

changes occur in the nucleus and cytoplasm. the chromatin condenses to form structures (sister chromatids) visible with a light microscope and the mitotic spindle begins to form, but the nucleus is still in tact

prometaphase

the nuclear envelope fragments and the spindle microtubules attach to the kinetochores of the sister chromatids

metaphase

all the cell's duplicated chromosomes are lined up at an imaginary plane equidistant between the poles of the mitotic spindle

anaphase

begins when sister chromatids separate from each other and ending when a complete set of daughter chromosomes arrives at each of the two poles of the cell

telophase

the daughter nuclei form at the two poles of a cell

cytokinesis

the division of a cytoplasm to form two separate daughter cells. usually occurs during telophase during mitosis. this and mitosis make up to mitotic (m) phase of the cell cycle