What happens to an animal cell when it is placed in a very dilute external medium? Why?
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Every solution has two components, solute (sugar, salt etc.) and solvent
(water). The solute dissolves in the solvent and forms a solution. Here
the animal cell is kept in dilute external medium that means hypotonic
solution.
Hypotonic solution: In this solution the solute concentration is lower than that of the cell fluid concentration. As a result, water moves into the cell from the surrounding medium through a cell membrane. This results in causing the cell to swell and burst.
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Hypotonic solution: In this solution the solute concentration is lower than that of the cell fluid concentration. As a result, water moves into the cell from the surrounding medium through a cell membrane. This results in causing the cell to swell and burst.
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Answer:
In such condition, the animal cell will gain water and would swell up or may even burst.
Due to endosmosis water moves from the dilute external medium through the semipermeable cell membrane into the cell with low water concentration. No diffusion can not lead to same consequences.
It causes equal distribution.
So, there will be no swelling or shrinkage of the cell.
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