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In a hypotonic environment, an onion cell will fill up with water. Hypotonic refers to a solution that has lower osmotic pressure than the solution you're comparing it to.
it turns purple and under a microscope you can see swirlys
Isotonic solution is a solution which contains the same concentration as present in cell. So no osmosis will occur. Hence there will be a neutral effect.
Nothing. The onion will get wet.
This depends on the nature of the NaCl solution...If it is a Hyper-tonic solution (More concentrated solution than onion cells), water will move by osmosis down it's concentration gradient, from a region of less negative water potential (high Ψ) in the onion cell, to a region of more negative water potential (low Ψ) in the solution through a selectively/partially permeable membrane;so the onion cell will be plasmolysed and will look "flaccid" (vacuole gets smaller and shrinks).The vice versa happens with a Hypo-tonic (less concentrated solution than onion cell) NaCl solution;The onion cell will then look "turgid" (has a large vacuole exerting a pressure on the cytoplasm and pushing it towards the cell's cellwall to make it "tensed".
In a hypotonic solution like distilled water the onion cell would "swell up" and the cytoplasm expands and water diffuses into the cell
An Onion cell as a contractile vacuole. This allows the cells to remover more water especially when placed into a hypotonic solution. An epithelial skin cell of the cheek does not have a contractile vacuole. The acess water cannot be stored, therefore the cell bursts.
they will disintegrate and soon the onion will peel and the onion part will BE NO MORE
The onion is sprouting or trying to grow, if it were placed in the soil it would develop roots as well
It affects the end results. If you look at the cell under a microscope, you will see that the section where the solution of the iodine has been placed it will appear different from the others. It might be a seperate colour or it could vary in size.
The reason why an onion was placed in a mummies hand was for its strong smell to keep animals away.
What happens is the alcohol starts to shred the onion. Next alcohol is soaked up inside the onion which starts to make the onion shrink. The cell can't take the acid that goes in it shrinks and dissolves.