A Hypotonic environment (or solution) means that there is a lower concentration of solute in the environment that there is in the cell.
Because of this, osmosis will take place and water will flow into the cell.
The cell could rupture in a process known as Cytolysis. (In which the cell dies.)
It will gain water and may burst.
Water comes down it's concentration gradient, from high concentration to low concentration, and the cell fills with water and may burst.
the cell will become flaccid or will undergo plasmolysis because the concentration of solute is more inside the cell and less in the solution.
It will explode, since it doesn't have a tough cellular wall.
It would shrink.
it will gain water and bust
IT will swell and burst
They will shrink
"hypertonic"
If an animal cell is placed in a hypotonic solution, there will be a net movement of water into the cell and it will eventually burst. If an animal cell is placed in a hypertonic solution, there will be a net movement of water out of the cell and it will shrink.
Which is called Plasmoptysis.
When placed in an isotonic solution nothin will happen to the cell, but when placed in a hypotonic solution the cell will implode (not explode, thus the water will push the cell on itself until implosion occurs.) Last but not least a hypertonic solution will cause the cell to explode by too much water entering the cell because there is already more water in the cell then in the solution. So the simple answer is: Isotonic solution= nothing, hypotonic solution= implosion, and hypertonic solution= explosion.
Hypotonic- i think. Hypertonic is when it shrinks and Lyses is when the cell burts from swelling too much. We did it with blood cells in my Anatomy and Physiology class.
"hypertonic"
Hypotonic Solution
it swells and burst
When a cell is placed in a Hypotonic solution, the water diffuses into the cell, causing the cell to swell and possibly explode.
If an animal cell is placed in a hypotonic solution, there will be a net movement of water into the cell and it will eventually burst. If an animal cell is placed in a hypertonic solution, there will be a net movement of water out of the cell and it will shrink.
If cells are placed in a hypotonic solution the cells gain water. The hypotonic solution has lower solute concentration then the cell's cytoplasm so the water will enter via osmosis.
Which is called Plasmoptysis.
When placed in an isotonic solution nothin will happen to the cell, but when placed in a hypotonic solution the cell will implode (not explode, thus the water will push the cell on itself until implosion occurs.) Last but not least a hypertonic solution will cause the cell to explode by too much water entering the cell because there is already more water in the cell then in the solution. So the simple answer is: Isotonic solution= nothing, hypotonic solution= implosion, and hypertonic solution= explosion.
As, human cell is an animal cell. When it is placed in an hypotonic solution like freshwater,it will finally swell and burst
Hypotonic- i think. Hypertonic is when it shrinks and Lyses is when the cell burts from swelling too much. We did it with blood cells in my Anatomy and Physiology class.
Hypotonic solution
water flows into the cell