EVERYDAY SCIENCE

Detailed explanation-1: -Distilled water on the other hand is hypotonic to red blood cells. The red blood cell will therefore swell and haemoglobin, containing the haem that gives the red colour to erythrocytes, leaks from the cell resulting in a transparent red-pink-coloured solution.

Detailed explanation-2: -The distilled water outside the red blood cell, since it is 100% water and no salt, is hypotonic (it contains less salt than the red blood cell) to the red blood cell. The red blood cell will gain water, swell ad then burst. The bursting of the red blood cell is called hemolysis.

Detailed explanation-3: -Answer and Explanation: The animal cell(red blood cell) will burst when it is placed in water since it lacks cell wall. On the other hand, when the plant cell is placed in water, the water molecules will move inside the cell causing the cell to swell but since the cell has the cell wall it doesn’t burst.

Detailed explanation-4: -Distilled water contains no solutes, while red blood cells have many solutes dissolved in their intracellular environment. Therefore, water will leave the distilled water and enter the cell via osmosis. The result is that the cell will swell with water and burst, a process called hemolysis.

Detailed explanation-5: -When RBCs are placed in water, they can imbibe water and swell up. This results in the bursting of cells.