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lose because of osmosis:) your welcome.

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IT will gain water.

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Would a cell placed in syrup probably gain or lose water?

A cell placed in syrup will shrink due to water loss. Since a syrup is hypertonic to a cell the water inside will diffuse out toward the higher solute concentration.


Is a cell is placed in a salt water water leaves cell by?

If a cell is placed in salt water, water leaves the cell by osmosis.


If a cell is placed in salt water water leaves the cell by .?

If a cell is placed in salt water, water leaves the cell by osmosis.


What would happen if a cell placed in a hypotonic solution?

When a cell is placed in a Hypotonic solution, the water diffuses into the cell, causing the cell to swell and possibly explode.


What would happen if an cell was placed in a hypertonic solution?

It would shrivel up and die, because water would flow out of the cell.


What would happen if freshwater bacterial cells are placed in salt water?

water leaves the cell causeing the cell to shrink.


What are conditions necessary to cause water to diffuse out of a cell?

If the concentration of water inside the cell is higher, water will leave the cell. This would happen if a cell is placed in a hypertonic solution.


What would happened if a cell containing many dissolved solutes placed in pure water?

Water would enter the cell via osmosis and it would finally burst.


What would happen if you put liver cell in a hyptonic solution?

If an animal cell is placed in a hypotonic solution, there will be a net movement of water into the cell and it will eventually burst. If an animal cell is placed in a hypertonic solution, there will be a net movement of water out of the cell and it will shrink.


When the onion cell is placed in the pure water the size of the cell would be bigger after one hour but when you placed the cheek cell into the pure water it will burst why is that so?

An Onion cell as a contractile vacuole. This allows the cells to remover more water especially when placed into a hypotonic solution. An epithelial skin cell of the cheek does not have a contractile vacuole. The acess water cannot be stored, therefore the cell bursts.


What happens to a leaf cell if it were placed in a highly concentrated salt solution?

The cell would lose water and the membrane would collapse.


What would happen to a fresh water cell if placed into salt-water?

die..and its body will float on the surface