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What happens when you put a red blood cell in concentrated salt solutions?
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∙ 10y ago
A red blood cell placed in a concentrated sugar solution will shrink and wrinkle. The red blood cell is hypotonic and the concentrated sugar solution is hypertonic. Water will rush out of the cell causing diffusion leading to the cell's shrinking.
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∙ 12y ago
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∙ 14y agobasically this kills your red blood cells as they can not survive with too concentrated body fluids.
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∙ 10y agoIf the concentration of the salt solution is high it will shrink and if the concentration of the solution is low it will swell and then burst!!
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∙ 12y agoIf a red blood cell in placed in a solution which has a lower solute concentration - water will enter the cell (eventually causing it to burst if the concentration difference is high).
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∙ 12y agoit would swell up and burst into smithereens
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∙ 12y agoThe blood cells will berst
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Why does the shape of a red blood cell change in different solutions?
It changes to solve different solutions like antibodies.
What happens to a red blood cell when exposed to isotonic solutions?
If a red blood cell is placed in an isotonic solution then nothing should happen physically because an isotonic solution is one that has the same solute concentration as the red blood cell itself.
A red blood cell will shrink in size when placed in a more concentrated salt solution because of the passive process called?
Osmosis
What solution will cause hemolysis?
Hemolysis is the bursting of red blood cells (hemo- blood and lysis- bursting). There are three types of solutions that blood can be put into: hypertonic, hypotonic and isotonic. The names of these give you some clue as to how the cell will behave in solution. Hypertonic solutions have greater osmotic pressure than the cells they contain, which will cause the cell to shrivel as its contents diffuse into the solution. Hypotonic solutions have less osmotic pressure than the cells inside of them, so the contents of solution will diffuse across the cell membrane and into the cell, eventually causing it to swell and burst (hemolysis). Isotonic solutions have osmotic pressure equal to that of the solutes they contain, so no net change is observed.
Cytoplasm in a plant cell will shrink if the cell is?
a) place in a concentrated salt solution.
What happens to plant cell in medium concentrated water?
if the plant cell is in concentrated water...it shrinks .i.e the water in plant cell flows out and hence the plant cell loses its turgidity and shrinks.this process is called exosmosis .
What will happen to a red blood cell if placed in a bowl of concentrated salt solution?
Water will leave the cell and the cell will shrink and shrivel.
What happens to a cell if you place it in a distilled and concentrated salt solution?
It gets waterlogged. Really?
What happens when red blood cell is kept in concentrated saline solution?
The cell will seek homeostasis and attempt to balance itself with its environment. Since the external environment is more saline than the interior of the cell (hypertonic), the cell will lose water in an attempt to decrease the exterior salinity .
What happens if you place a cell in istonic solutions?
it will rust and then turn green
Why does the shape of a red blood cell change in different solutions?
It changes to solve different solutions like antibodies.
How does the endocrine system meet needs for waste removal?
the removal of waste is diffusion. what happens is the cell membrance diffusion blood concentrated oxygen through whats called a oscorosis which is in the back of your head.
What happens to a leaf cell if it were placed in a highly concentrated salt solution?
The cell would lose water and the membrane would collapse.
What happens to the white blood cell count in an anemic patient?
Nothing happens to the white blood cells in an anemic patient. It is the red blood cell count that goes down.
What happens when you submerge a plant cell and an animal cell in solutions with different water potential?
They both will eventually burst.
What happens to worn out white blood cell?
the kiss
What is the best type of tonicity in an environment of a red blood cell?
Isotonic solutions will maintain the normal volume of an individual red blood cell. A hypotonic solution will swell the cell, and a hypertonic one will shrink it.
