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It bursts.
Why?
First of all, osmosis: the diffusion of water across a selectively permeable membrane from an area of higher waterconcentration to lower water concentration. (OR low solute concentration to high solute concentration.)
Distilled water is referred to as a hypotonic solution (You should double check that) and when water enters the cell, it begins to swell and eventually bursts.
Thing is, with plant cells-they have cell walls. So with turgor pressure and the such the plant becomes turgid, but with animal cells, the cell membrane is really thin. So because there is such low water concentration in the animal cell, water rushes in, trying to balance everything out. But the cell membrane is very thin, and well, it bursts because it can only take so much.
This happens with distilled water because there is no concentration in the water at all, and there is so much water concentration compared to the inside of the animal cell.
Hope it helps:)
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Do animal cell and plant cell get bigger in distilled water?
If animal cells are placed in distilled water they will absorb water by the process called osmosis. This will make the cell swell and, if it doen not stop, eventually burst. Plant cells placed in distilled water will also absorb water by osmosis but the cell wall prevents them from swelling. Water enters the cells by osmosis because the concentration of the solution inside the cells is higher than that of the 'solution' outside. Water always moves by osmosis from a dilute solution to a concentrated solution (when they are separated by a membrane which lets water through but not dissolved substances). For a good introduction to osmosis see: http://www.chaosscience.org.uk/pub/public_html//article.php?story=20050301222247333
What happens to a prune when placed in distilled water does it shrink swell or stay the same and why?
When a prune is placed in distilled water, it will swell. This is because distilled water has a higher concentration of water molecules compared to the prune, causing water to move into the prune through osmosis, resulting in swelling as the prune absorbs water.
What term describes the condition of plant cells after being placed in distilled water?
Plasmolysis describes the condition of plant cells after being placed in distilled water. In plasmolysis, water exits the cell by osmosis, causing the cell membrane to detach from the cell wall. This results in the cell shrinking and the cytoplasm pulling away from the cell wall.
What will happen if a bacterial cell is placed in distilled water with lysozyme?
The bacterial cell will undergo osmotic lysis due to the hypotonic environment created by the distilled water, causing water to enter the cell and potentially burst it. The presence of lysozyme will further damage the bacterial cell by breaking down its cell wall, making it more susceptible to lysis.
A bag with a 2 percent solution is placed in a beaker that has a 10 percent solution is the solution in the bag hypotonic hypertonic or isotonic?
The solution in the bag is hypotonic compared to the solution in the beaker. This is because the bag has a lower concentration of solute (2%) compared to the beaker (10%), so water will tend to move into the bag to equalize the concentrations, causing the bag to swell.
What would happen to an animal cell if it was placed into a beaker containing a hypertonic solution?
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A model cell half full of an aqueous solution of glucose with a membrane that is permeable to glucose is placed into a beaker of distilled water Explain what is likely to happen?
do you go to UTAS? that is not an answer how is this going to help people ????
What will happen if a gram-positive bacteria is placed in distilled water and penicillin?
no changes
What can happen to animal cells when placed in a hypotonic solution explain?
What can happen to animal cells when placed in a hypotonic solution explain
After a salt cube is placed into a beaker of water what will happen?
beakers are not made of water, they are made of glass.
What happens if an egg is soaked in distilled water?
An egg placed in distilled water will expand more than an egg placed in the salt solution because thee water concentration of the water in the beaker is greater the the water concentration of the egg.
What would happen if a normal cell were placed in a beaker of pure water?
it would absorb more and more water until it will explode
What is a beaker placed on top of?
a tripod
What would happen to the mass of each bag in this experiment if all the bags were placed in 0.4 M sucrose instead of distilled water?
What experiment?
What will happen to an animal cell that is placed in 50 percent salt solution?
It will shrink.
What might happen to a heated beaker made from glass that does not contain boron if the beaker were placed in a pan of iced water?
Without boron, the glass beaker may not be able to withstand sudden temperature changes and could shatter due to thermal shock when placed in iced water. This is because borosilicate glass, which contains boron, has a lower coefficient of thermal expansion and is better suited for rapid temperature changes.
What happen if the white blood cell is put in distilled water?
If a white blood cell is placed in distilled water, water will enter the cell through osmosis. This will cause the cell to swell and eventually burst, leading to its destruction. The process is known as lysis.
