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When a cell is put in a hypertonic solution, it shrinks and shrivels. You alwasy have t say: This solution is hypertonic to ...A hypertonic solution means that there is more matter in the solution than in the object it is compared to. The cell will shrink and shrivel because the water will leave the cell to try to dissolve the matter outside of it.

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A hypertonic solution is a solution that is more concentrated than the cytoplasm within a cell. A cell placed within a hypertonic solution will experience a concentration gradient concerning water abundance inside and outside the cell. Since external conditions have less water molecules than the internal conditions (in this case), osmosis will take place resulting to the cell losing water, and the cytoplasm becoming more concentrated, as water moves out of the cell into the hypertonic solution. This means that, theoretically, the size of the cell will decrease and will continue to do so until the concentration of the cytoplasm is equal to the concentration of the solution outside the cell.

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water will move from a high H2O concentration inside the cell, to a low H2O concentration outside the cell.

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The cell will shrink because it will lose water to the solution.

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When a cell is placed in a hypertonic solution, water molecules would diffuse out of the cell. This will result in the cell shrinking

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It loses water and shrivels up.

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Cell is placed in a solution If the cell is observed to shrink the solution must be relative to the interior of the cell?

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The cell will experience crenation and shrink. The cell will lose water through osmosis when placed in a hypertonic solution.


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when a cell is placed in a hypertonic solution. Hypertonic or hypotonic, but I'm pretty sure hypertonic :)


What do you call it when a plant cell is placed in a hypertonic solution?

yes...when placed in a hypertonic solution, it goes shrinks (plasmolysis).


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salt water. this will cause the cell to lose it's water osmotically resulting in it becoming plasmolysedA hypertonic solution


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