AP BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -This is called osmosis. The sea water is far more concentrated than our body cells. So if one drinks sea water, his cells will rapidly lose water as our body cell is also a semipermeable membrane and as a result it allow water to go out of the cells. This will cause dehydration and the cells will shrink.

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: -Salt Sucks, Cells Swell 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: -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-5: -Hence, the salt solution acts as a hypertonic solution when compared to the RBC. Therefore, water will move out of the RBC by osmosis and will result in the shrinking of the RBC (water moves from a hypotonic solution to a hypertonic solution).