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What is the salt concentration of the cytoplasm of the human cell?
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Why is it that when unicellular organism when placed in a concentrated salt will dehydrated?
because the cytoplasm has a low concentration of salt while the outside has a high concentration bacause of this water comes out of the cell due to osmosis
What makes cytoplasm in a plant cell shrink?
If you place the cell in a hypertonic solution (a solution with a higher concentration of salt than the cell) the cell membrane would shrink.
Cytoplasm in a plant cell will shrink if the cell is?
a) place in a concentrated salt solution.
What happens to a cell if it gets placed in salt water?
Osmosis! The concentration of substances disolved in the cytoplasm is lower than the concentration of salt in salt water. The cytoplasm and the salt water are separated by the cell membrane, which is semi-permeable ie it lets water through but not dissolved substances (the membrane is also described as partially permeable or selectively permeable). So, water will pass by osmosis from the cytoplasm (the dilute solution) to the salt water (the concentrated solution), and the cell will shrink as it loses water. See: http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/biology/cellprocesses/2diffusionandosmosisrev3.shtml
What would happen if you put an animal cell into a solution with a greater water concentration than the cell?
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What happens when there is a higher concentration of water outside the cell than inside the cell?
Water moves into the cell by osmosis along the concentration gradient until the two gradients are equal. The result is that the volume inside the cell increases, causing the cell to swell.
What happens to animal cells in salt water?
Salt water is hypertonic (has more solute) to the cell. So when an animal cell is put in salt solution water will rush out and the cell will shrivel up because there is too much salt and too little water inside. the salt solution is said to be hypertonic to the cytoplasm of the cells.
What will happen if a red blood cell is placed in sodium chloride solution?
Provided the concentration of salt is higher than the salt concentration in the red blood cell, the red blood cell, through the process of osmosis and the principal of diffusion, will shrink, as water flows from within the red blood cell to the solution.
What does salt perserve?
no, putting a cell in a solution with a high concentration of salt will cause all the water to leave the cell, called dessication, which kills the cell.
The concentration of material is greater on the outside of the cell than the inside in what solution?
A solution in which the salt concentration is greater outside the cell than inside the cell is known as
What would happen to a cell if it was placed into a solution that had higher concentration of salt then the cell?
When the cell was placed in the higher concentration of salt diffusion would make the concentrations inside the cell and outside the cell became equal, thus placing more salt in the cell. The cell would become crenated. The water would be pulled out and the cell become like a prune or raisin.
A Cell is placed in a salt solution whose concentration is greater than cell?
When a cell is placed in salt water it will shrink, but will swell in carbonated water. m.c
