Question

Enumerate the probable events that could happen when you put animal or plant cell in a solution of sugar or salt in water.

Answer 1

When we will put animal cell in a solution of sugar or salt in water there will be osmosis as the concentration of water is lower around the cell and the concentration is higher in cell so the cell will become shrink and a plant cell will become plasmolized. If a living cell was placed in a sugar solution it would cause outward osmosis to occur then solution outside the cell would be hypotonic containing fewer solute molecules than inside the cell and water will move into the cell by inward osmosis and the cell would then swell.