AP BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -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.

Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -Water in cells moves toward the highest concentration of salt. If there is more salt in a cell than outside it, the water will move through the membrane into the cell, causing it to increase in size, swelling up as the water fills the cell in its imperative to combine with the salt.

Detailed explanation-4: -10% NaCl is a hypertonic solution in comparison to the internal cellular liquid of RBC. Since there are more solute particles outside in the salt water than inside in the cytoplasm. This means that water will move out of the cells by osmosis due to the concentration gradient, and the cells will become shrivelled.