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A blood cell immersed in a hypertonic solution will cause water to move out of the cell, thereby causing it to shrivel. Osmotic pressure is water's tendency to seek to equalize its own concentration across a semipermeable membrane (like the cell membrane of a blood cell). So in a hypertonic solution (relative to the solution inside the blood cell), there are less particles of water per particle of solute. This means the water concentration inside the blood cell is higher, and mother nature will have none of that. So water will move out of the cell, seeking to equalize its concentration across the cell membrane. If the membrane is also permeable to solutes in the hypotonic solution, they will move across the membrane following their own chemical and electromagnetic concentration gradients.
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What refers to a solution with more molecules outside the cell than inside the cell?
hypertonic solution
What kind of solution occurs in your mouth when you eat something with salt?
hypertonic solution
How are hypertonic solution and hypo tonic Solution related?
A hypertonic solution has the solute greater than the solvent, whereas a hypotonic solution is the reverse.
What happens to the distribution of chloroplasts during plasmolysis?
The chloroplasts have clumped into the middle. This demonstrates the effect on a hypertonic solution on living cells. :)
If a cell is dropped in any solution and the cell does not change size by either shrinking or swelling what is the solution?
isotonic
What is the Effect of 0.075M and 0.3M concentration on RBC's?
It will depend on the nature of the solute. If you are talking about NaCl, for example, 0.075 is hypotonic and will tend to rupture the RBC. 0.3 M NaCl will be hypertonic and will tend to make the RBC shrink.
Is TPN a hypertonic solution?
hypertonic
What osmotic effect would injecting a patient with a 10 percent saline solution have?
hypertonic effect
What refers to a solution with more molecules outside the cell than inside the cell?
hypertonic solution
A cell is dropped into a solution and the cell swells the solution is?
hypertonic hypertonic
Rupture of red blood cells placed in a hypertonic solution is called?
Yes, and this can cause the cell to explode. This is not life threatening however, because we have skin cells to protect us.
What kind of solution occurs in your mouth when you eat something with salt?
hypertonic solution
What is hypertonic and solution and hypertonic solution mean?
a solution that has a higher osmotic pressure than another solution to which it is compared
If a cell lives in hypotonic environment what will happen if placed in hypertonic environment?
If a cell is used to living in a hypotonic environment, that means that there exists less solute concentration outside of the cell. Take, for example, a red blood cell (RBC). When the RBC is placed in distilled water, the RBC is hypertonic to the water. The water is hypotonic to the RBC. In this case, the RBC will swell, and in most cases rupture. However, if one were to put an RBC in very salty water, the RBC would be hypotonic to the salt water. The salt water would be a hypertonic environment. In this case, the water would diffuse out of the RBC, causing it to shrivel. Awigman
If an animal cell shrinks it was probably placed in a . hypotonic solution hypertonic solution isotonic solution?
"hypertonic"
Is regular non-diet pop a hypotonic or a hypertonic solution?
I am pretty sure it is a hypertonic solution.
What TPN solution should burn patients use?
Hypertonic dextrose solution
