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TRANSPORT INTO AND OUT OF THE CELL

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Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]

If you drink salt water, your cells will start to lose water. This is because the salt is ____ solution

A	Hypotonic Solution
B	Hypertonic Solution
C	Isotonic Solution

Explanation:

Detailed explanation-1: -Saltwater is considered a hypertonic fluid, which means it contains more salt than human blood.

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: -Seawater has a high amount of salt particles compared to freshwater, making it a hypertonic solution. Freshwater fish can’t live in seawater because the water would rush from their cells into the surrounding saltwater. They would soon die from dehydration.

Detailed explanation-4: -In a hypertonic solution, the net movement of water will be out of the body and into the solution. A cell placed into a hypertonic solution will shrivel and die by a process known as plasmolysis.

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