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Why don't potato cells swell and burst when placed in distilled water?
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∙ 11y ago
Potatos are plants and they have cell walls.
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Potato cells placed in distilled water will?
take up the water, swell
Why do onion cells not rupture when placed in distilled water?
Because plant cells have a rigid cell wall
Why not inject distilled water into arm?
This will increase the water potential of the blood, and cause your blood cells to burst due to osmosis.
What is the environment of a red blood cell when red blood cells are approximately 0.25 percent salt Red blood cells are placed in distilled water?
The distilled water is a hypotonic environment.
Is staining what you call it if you diluted a blood sample with distilled water and the red blood cells burst?
You can certainly expect the blood cells to stain the water as their cell membranes rupture from being in a hypotonic solution. The term that describes this is "To lyse". Blood cells lyse in distilled water.
Potato cells placed in distilled water will?
take up the water, swell
What is the direction of water movement in a cylinder of potato tissue in distilled water?
In a cylinder of potato tissue placed in distilled water, the direction of water movement will be from the external solution (distilled water) into the potato tissue due to osmosis. This is because the potato cells have a higher solute concentration compared to the external solution, resulting in water moving into the cells to equalize the concentration gradient.
What happens to red blood cells when they are placed in distilled water?
because of osmosis it would get fatter and fatter with water till it burst. aww.
A red blood cell placed in distilled water will swell and burst due to the diffusion of what?
3. water from the blood cell into its environment
What term describes the condition of plant cells after being placed in distilled water?
What term describes the condition of plant cells after being placed in distilled water?
Why do onion cells not rupture when placed in distilled water?
Because plant cells have a rigid cell wall
When the onion and cheek epithelial cells was placed in the distilled water?
eat cholate
Why not inject distilled water into arm?
This will increase the water potential of the blood, and cause your blood cells to burst due to osmosis.
What is the environment of a red blood cell when red blood cells are approximately 0.25 percent salt Red blood cells are placed in distilled water?
The distilled water is a hypotonic environment.
While cleaning a saltwater aquarium students placed a family of fiddler crabs from the saltwater aquarium into a container of distilled water what effect will this have on the crabs?
They will die if left in freshwater, their cells will burst. Water follows solute
Is staining what you call it if you diluted a blood sample with distilled water and the red blood cells burst?
You can certainly expect the blood cells to stain the water as their cell membranes rupture from being in a hypotonic solution. The term that describes this is "To lyse". Blood cells lyse in distilled water.
Why do red blood cells that do not contain spectrin burst more quicly when put in distilled water?
Water passively moves from an area of high water concentration (the dilute water) to low water conc. (in cell) (i.e. down the water potential). This causes the cell to swell up and its contents to dilute. It eventually stops swelling when the water potential reaches zero i.e. when the tonicity of the environment = the tonicity inside the cell. If its membrane can't cope with the swelling it may eventually burst.
