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Hypotonic cells are cells that have been exposed to hypotonic solutions. These solutions cause cells to plumb as they fill with the solution.
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A blood cell which swells until it bursts when put into a hypotonic solution is an example of what process?
The hypotonic solution has a lower solute concentration than that of the fluid in the cell. Osmosis keeps trying to bring the concentrations into equilibrium until the cell bursts.
Two functions of cell wall in plant cells?
1. Allows plant cell to stay in hypotonic solution (animal cells go through hemolysis because they lack a cell wall) 2. Function as building material for plants
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
What is the biology term of isotonic?
If you're asking about what the term isotonic means...there are three basic types of solutions- Hypertonic, Hypotonic and Isotonic Hypertonic Solutions are solutions that contain more solute than the other solution in question. Hypotonic solutions are less concentrated with solute than the other solution (When i refer to the "other solution" usually when you talk about isotonic solutions etc, you are talking about it in reference to another solution) Isotonic solutions are solutions that contain an EQUAL amount of solute with the other solution and the solute diffuses equally from one solution to the other... SOrry if anything is innaccurate, but a proper definition (other than mine) shouldn't be hard to get once you understand this...
What is the function of the contractile vacuole in a protozoan?
Living in fresh water, a hypotonic environment, causes water to enter the cell of certain protists (protozoa ) and would lysis the cell unless there were a way to expel this water. This is what contractile vacuoles do. When the fill with enough water microfilament contraction expels the excess water from the vacuole and helps the cell maintain internal isotonicity.
Water enters a cell when the solution surrounding the cell is?
Hypotonic- i think. Hypertonic is when it shrinks and Lyses is when the cell burts from swelling too much. We did it with blood cells in my Anatomy and Physiology class.
What happens when water moves out of a cell if the cell is placed in a what solution?
Hypotonic Solution
A cell would plump with water and possibly lyse in what solutions?
hypotonic solution
What solution would cause a cell to shiver hypotonic or hypertonic?
hypotonic
What is the ideal osmotic environment for an animal cell?
Hypotonic
A cell is dropped into a solution and the cell swells the solution is?
hypertonic hypertonic
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 is a hypotonic solution what will happen to a cell placed in a hypotonic solution?
it swells and burst
Does the cell swell?
Putting the cell in a hypotonic solution makes it swell up.
What cell is full of water?
hypotonic
Is gram positive hypertonic or hypotonic?
Neither. The structure of the gram negative cell wall protects the cell from hypotonic solutions. Is this what you were asking?
What happens to a cell when it is place in a hypotonic solution?
The cell explodes!
