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What is the shrinking of a cell due to loss of water?
Osmosis, or diffusion of water across a membrane, is the process that's happening when a cell's cytoplasm shrinks due to water loss. The process by which a plant cell's cytoplasm shrinks due to water loss is called plasmolysis
What is the contraction or shrinking of the cell membrane of a plant cell in a hypertonic solution in response to the loss of water by osmosis?
plasmolysis
What is it called when a red blood cell bursts from a hypotonic solution?
When cell is placed in a hypertonic solution water moves out, first from cytoplasm and then from vacuole. Cell membrane shrinks away from the cell wall. This is known as plasmolysis. Plasmolysis is when a protoplast of a plant cell starts to shrink due to water loss from the cell. This causes gaps between the cell wall and cell membrane.
What is plasmoysis?
The shrinking of protoplasm away from the cell wall of a plant or bacterium due to water loss from osmosis, thereby resulting in gaps between the cell wall and cell membrane.
What is the shrinking of a cell called?
A plasmolysis solution is the opposite of a hypotonic solution because in a plasmolysis solution the cell will shrink due to the little amount of water outside the cell and the greater amount of water inside the cell. A plasmolysis solution only occurs in plant cells.
Why do onion cell plasmolyze?
it is the contraction or shrinking of the cell membrane of a plant cell in a hypertonic solution in responce to the loss of water by osmosis
Why is the centrifuge solution isotonic?
To prevent organelles bursting/shrinking. - Osmosic gain or loss of water.
Is H2O hemolysis or crenation?
Crenation is the contraction of a cell after exposure to a hypertonic solution, due to the loss of water through osmosis.Hemolysis is the breakdown of red blood cells.
What cell prevents the bodies loss of blood?
Platelets.
Can you replace your blood with water?
No. That is not possible. It will kill you. You have to replace blood for blood loss.
What happens when large blood loss is occurring and distilled water is added in the same volume as the blood loss?
Describe what happen to the body from a injure do to blood loss occur
Which of the blood cells make the blood clot?
It's not a blood cell. It is platelets. They clot due to blood loss from damaged blood vessels
