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When there is more water outside of the cell than inside a cell water will?
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What happens when you put a cell in salt water and why?
The inside of a cell and the outside of the cell are usually in equilibrium as far as salt is concerned. Water always follows salt.If the outside has more salt, then water will follow it outwards. The cell will lose water and become shriveled.
Immerse a living human cell in a hypotonic solution and water will tend to?
the water molecules will go into the cell since it will move from a concentration of higher to a concentration of lesser. If the cell had more water inside than the surrounding area then the water would leave the cell until an equilibrium is reached between the inside of the cell and the outside of the cell.
When a neuron is resting the inside of the cell membrane is?
When a neuron is resting then inside of the cell membrane is more negative than outside.
Which term refers to a cell that has more solute on the inside than on the outside?
not hypertonic solution
Why cannot bacteria grow on salted meat?
Salt produces a hypertonic solution outside of the cell (more salt outside than on the inside) causing osmosis of water out of the cell to balance the solute concentration. Upon the loss of water out of the cell shrinks and the outer membrane folds improperly making nutrient diffusion and water osmosis more difficult, under very extreme conditions, enough water can be drawn out of the cell to cause the proteins in the cytoplasm to precipitate out of solution within the cell.
What happens when there is a higher concentration of water outside the cell than inside the cell?
Water moves into the cell by osmosis along the concentration gradient until the two gradients are equal. The result is that the volume inside the cell increases, causing the cell to swell.
What are the examples of hypotonic solution?
the concentration of water is more outside the cell is more than inside thecell
Define osmosis in simple anatomy and physiology?
In simple terms: Osmosis is when water moves from a place with lots of water through a tissue wall to an area where there is less water. For example, if a cell is placed in water, because there is more water outside the cell than inside, the water molecules will start to move from outside the cell, through the cell wall and into the cell, causing it to swell, until the amount of water inside the cell is the same as outside.
Water will diffuse out of a cell when the cell is placed in a hypertonic solution?
You are correct. A hypertonic solution is a solution outside the cell that has more solute in it that water. This means that there is more water inside the cell than solute. Because there is more water in the cell, it will diffuse out of it and the cell will shrivel up.
What happens when you put a cell in salt water and why?
The inside of a cell and the outside of the cell are usually in equilibrium as far as salt is concerned. Water always follows salt.If the outside has more salt, then water will follow it outwards. The cell will lose water and become shriveled.
What concentration of solutes is equal the concentration of solutes inside the cell?
when a concentration of something, usually water, is the same inside and outside a cell, it is called an isotonic solution. When there is more inside the cell or membrane, but less outside, the solution is hypotonic. when there is more on the outside , it is known as hypertonic. however, it depends what you are describing
When the salt solution was added to the onion cells which was the greater concentration (most pure) of water(inside or outside the cell membrane?
The water inside the cell was less salty and therefore had more water than the outside. Water then leave the cells and they will become 'wrinkled' looking or wilted.
What kind of solution exists when the substances dissolved outside the cell are more abundant than those in the cytoplasm?
When solute concentration is higher on the outside of the cell, the cell is said to be in a hypertonic solution. This will result in the diffusion of water from inside the cell to outside the cell.
How does a high consentration of salt affect cells?
You are looking at a hypertonic solution, where there is a higher amount of salt outside the cell than there is inside the cell. The water inside the cell will diffuse out, which causes the cell to shrink. This is why your fingers shrivel in the bathtub. The opposite will happen in a hypotonic solution. The cell has more salt than the outside, and the water will diffuse into the cell, causing it to swell.
How do cells shrink in the process of osmosis?
In the process of osmosis, water diffuses in and out of the cell, depending on the concentration gradient. If the water is in lower concentration outside the cell, water will diffuse out of the cell to balance out the concentrations inside and outside the cell.For example: if you put a red blood cell inside a beaker of water, the cell would eventually burst. This is because water from the beaker will diffuse into the cell because the concentration of water is lower inside the cell. A red blood cell will burst if it contains too much. However, it has no way of getting rid of the extra water so it just keeps absorbing more and more water until it bursts.-->if you want it to shrink put it into a beaker full o salt water and and the water will move from the cell to the outside to dilute the salt. this will result in shrinking. *bow*
What is the major difference between between facilitated diffusion and active transport?
Facilitated diffusion occurs in order to maintain homeostasis within a cell. If there is more of something, such as water, inside a cell than outside the cell, diffusion allows the water to flow out of the cell so that an equal amount of water molecules exists both inside and outside the membrane. This requires little or no energy from the cell itself. Active transport is when the cell takes in or excretes material through the membrane so that the amount of material inside and outside the membrane is different. This requires energy from the cell to occur.
When the outside of the neuron cell is more positive than the inside the cell is?
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