Question

put a drop of blood in a salt solution what will happen to the Drop of blood and why explain your answer

Answer 1

The cell will swell up because salt solution is hypertonic and osmosis takes place

Answer 2

When a drop of blood is added to a salt solution, water moves out of the blood cells into the salt solution by the process of plasmolysis.

This happens because the salt solution acts as a hypertonic solution and has a higher solute concentration as compared to that of the blood cells.

So, in order to maintain equilibrium, water moves from a region of lower solute concentration( blood cells) to a region of higher solute concentration( salt solution), thereby causing the cells to shrink and become flaccid.