ANIMAL PHYSIOLOGY
OSMOREGULATION
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Your cells will shrivel and you’ll die
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Your cells will swell and you’ll die
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Nah you’ll be fine.
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Detailed explanation-1: -A cell place in salty solution would loose water as water will move from cell to surrounding hypertonic medium by the process of osmosis causing the cell to shrivel up.
Detailed explanation-2: -The water potential of the salt solution, being hypertonic, is less than that of the cytoplasm of the cell. Hence, water comes out of the cell through osmosis and protoplast shrinks. This process is called as plasmolysis.
Detailed explanation-3: -When cells are exposed to high levels of salt (sodium chloride) they lose water by osmosis and shrink. The cytoplasm condenses and the movement of cellular components, such as the cytoskeleton and organelles, stops.
Detailed explanation-4: -For example, a solution containing 10% salt is hypertonic. When a cell is placed in a hypertonic environment, there is a net movement of water to the outside of the cell (from the higher water environment inside the cell). The cell shrinks in response.