Water moves into the amoeba living in fresh water through the process of osmosis, where water molecules move from an area of high water concentration (outside the amoeba) to an area of lower water concentration (inside the amoeba). This helps the amoeba maintain its internal balance of water and nutrients.
A freshwater amoeba is more likely to have contractile vacuoles because it needs a mechanism to regulate its internal water balance in a hypoosmotic environment like freshwater where water constantly enters its cell by osmosis, whereas a marine amoeba inhabiting a hyperosmotic environment does not face the same water influx issue.
The cheek cell placed in salt water would undergo a process called plasmolysis, where water leaves the cell due to the hypertonic environment. This would cause the cell to shrink and become dehydrated. Ultimately, the cell may die due to the loss of water and cellular functions not being able to occur properly.
When an egg is placed in a salt solution, water inside the egg moves out towards the higher concentration of salt in the solution through osmosis. This causes the egg to shrink and become smaller in size as water leaves the egg.
In this scenario, the salt solution is hypertonic compared to the cell. Water will move out of the cell through osmosis, causing the cell to shrink or shrivel up.
Freshwater amoeba placed in salty water would experience water leaving their cells through osmosis, leading to dehydration, shrinkage, and eventually cell death. The high salt concentration outside the amoeba would create a hypertonic environment, causing water to flow out of the cell to try to balance the concentration difference.
There are certain types of perch that live in salt water, so in that case nothing would happen. However, if a fresh water perch was placed in salt water it would die. There are very few fish that can go between salt water and fresh water and perch is not one of them.
it would prob die because the salt water fish need salt water so yeah it would die.
It would lose salt into the water.
Water moves into the amoeba living in fresh water through the process of osmosis, where water molecules move from an area of high water concentration (outside the amoeba) to an area of lower water concentration (inside the amoeba). This helps the amoeba maintain its internal balance of water and nutrients.
If a cell is placed in salt water, water leaves the cell by osmosis.
If a cell is placed in salt water, water leaves the cell by osmosis.
No, don't try it. No. The salt would disolve. And don't try it
die..and its body will float on the surface
No a potato will not get heavier if placed in salt water, and does it really matter if it does? Do not ask stupid questions. Keep it simple.
water leaves the cell causeing the cell to shrink.
A freshwater amoeba is more likely to have contractile vacuoles because it needs a mechanism to regulate its internal water balance in a hypoosmotic environment like freshwater where water constantly enters its cell by osmosis, whereas a marine amoeba inhabiting a hyperosmotic environment does not face the same water influx issue.