What happens to a animal cell when in a hypertonic solution?

Answer 1

1. When a plant cell is immersed in a solution with low water potential, the water potential of its cell sap is higher than that of the solution outside its cell.
2. water will leave the cell by osmosis. As the cell loses water the vacuole decreases in size and the cytoplasm shrinks away from the cell wall.
3. the shrinkage of cytoplasm and cell membrane away from the cell wall is known as plasmolyses or dehydrated cell. the cell is said to be plasmolysed. A plasmolysed cell can be restored to its original state by placing it in water or in a solution with high water potential.

Answer 2

A hypertonic solution is less concentrated compared to the cytoplasm of the animal cell. When an animal cell is placed in a hypertonic solution, water diffuses across the selectively permeable cell membrane in an attempt to form an equilibrium between the two liquids. If the solution is hypertonic enough compared to the cell's cytoplasm, the cell would swell and could possibly explode.

Answer 3

When an animal cell is placed in a hypertonic solution, water will move out of the cell, causing it to shrink and potentially become dehydrated. This occurs because the concentration of solutes outside the cell is higher than inside, creating a concentration gradient that drives water out of the cell.

Answer 4

When an animal cell is placed into a hypertonic solution, the water will generally flow out of the cell in an effort to balance the concentration of solutes.

Answer 5

In a hypertonic solution the cell's fluid will move out of the cell and into the surrounding solution (osmosis) , causing the cell to shrink.

Answer 6

If you put a animal cell in hypertonic than the animal cell will shrink because hypertonic contains salt which the cell is not use to so it will shrink.