What will happen if we put an animal cell or a plant cell in sugar or salt solution in water?

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One of the following three things could happen : 1.  if the medium surrounding the cell has a higher water concentration than the cell, meaning that outside solution is  very dilute, the cell will gain water by osmosis such a solution is known as a hypotonic solution. Water molecules are free to pass across the cell membrane in both directions, but more water will come into the cell that will give the net (overall) result is that water enters. The cell is likely to swell up. 2.If the medium has exactly the same water concentration as the cell there will be no net movement of water across the cell membrane such solution is known as a isotonic solution. Water crossing the cell membrane in both direction but the amount going in is the same as the amount going out so there is no overall movement of water. The cell will stay the same size.

3.If the medium has a lower concentration of water than the cell, meaning that it is a very concentrated solution, the cell will lose water by osmosis such solution is known as hypertonic solution. Again water crosses the same membrane in both directions but this time more water leaves the cell than enter it. Therefore, the cell will shrink.

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Solution : If we put an animal cell or a plant cell into a solution of sugar or salt in water, one of the following three things could happen : (1) If the medium surrounding the cell has a higher water concentration than the cell, meaning that the outside solution is very dilute, the cell will gain water by osmosis. Such a solution is known as a hypotonic solution. Water molecules are free to pass across the cell membrane in both directions, but more water will come into the cell than will leave. The net (overall) result is that water enters the cell: The cell is likely to swell up. (2) If the medium has exactly the same water concentration as the cell, there will be no net movement of water across the cell membrane. Such a. solution is known as an isotonic solution. Water crosses the cell membrane. in both direction, but the amount going in is the same as the amount going out, so there is no overall movement of water. The cell will stay the same size . (3) If the medium has a lower concentration of water than the cell, meaning that it is a very concentrated solution. the cell will lose water by osmosis. Such a solution is known as a hypertonic solution. Pep Again, water crosses the cell membrane in both directions, but this time more water leaves the cell than enters it. Therefore the cell will shrink. Thus, osmosis is a special case of diffusion through a selectively permeable membrane.

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Solution : One out of the three conditions given below will happen: - (i) If the sugar or salt solution is highly concentrated, then water will go inside the cell through osmosis. <br> (ii) If the concentration of cytoplasm and sugar or salt solution is equal, then water will go inside the cell. <br> (iii) If the sugar or salt solution is less concentrated, then water will go from the cell into the solution.

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What will happen if we put an animal cell into a sugar or salt solution?