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What will happen to a houseplant if you water it with salt water (a hypertonic solution)?
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What would happen to a houseplant if you water it with salt water hypertonic solution?
It will die.
What will happen to a houseplant if you water it with salt water hypertonic solution?
It will most likely die. Only a few species of plants can thrive on salt or brackish water.
What will happen to a cell dropped into a solution of hypertonic salt water?
A cell immersed is a hypertonic solution will tend to lose water to the solution and shrink.
What will happen to a cell in a hypertonic solution?
I will take the cell to be animal cell. The hypertonic solution is taken as hypertonic saline solution. The cell will shrink in that case. There will be loss of water to the exterior of the cell. The biochemical cellular functions will be adversely affected. The cell may die if the solution is sufficiently hypertonic.
What direction does water move when cells are placed in hypertonic solution?
Water moves out of the cell in hypertonic solution.
What kind of solution causes the cell to shrink?
salt water. this will cause the cell to lose it's water osmotically resulting in it becoming plasmolysedA hypertonic solution
What will happen to a houseplant it you water it with salt water?
they will die
What cells that are placed in a hypertonic solution of pure water tend to?
Cells that are placed in a hypertonic solution of pure water tend to ___
What would happen to a loin fish in a hypertonic solution?
The solution will gain water from the fish, till the fish shrinks, and if the fish is not removed from the solution, the fish will die
What type of solution is hypertonic?
Hypertonic solutions cause cells to lose water.
Is an egg in water and food coloring hypertonic?
The solution is hypertonic compared to the egg.
A solution that causes water to move out of a cell?
Hypertonic Solution
