5. The mangrove is a plant that lives in ocean water. What would happen if root cells from a mangrove plant were placed in distilled water?

it will wither since it has been placed on a fresh water.

Explanation:

since mangrove plant grows on a salty water environment the available water from the mangrove plant will move to a highly concentrated region to a lowly concentrated region

dna is made up of six smaller molecules -- a five carbon sugar called deoxyribose, a phosphate molecule and four different nitrogenous bases (adenine, thymine, cytosine and guanine).