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: -Salt Sucks, Cells Swell If a higher concentration of salt is placed outside of the cell membrane, the water will leave the cell to bond with it. The loss of water from this movement causes plant cells to shrink and wilt. This is why salt can kill plants; it leaches the water from the cells.

Detailed explanation-3: -What happens to plant cells placed in a high salt (10%) solution? Water diffuses out of the cells and they shrink.

Detailed explanation-4: -As the salt concentration is higher outside the cell than inside, water will rush from inside the cell to outside the cell to try and normalize the concentrations to make them isotonic. This will result in the cell shriveling up in a process called plasmolysis.