what will happen if an animal or a plant cell is put into a solution of sugar or salt preapared in water?

Question

(mention all the three conditions)

Answer 1

High solute concentration (high content of sugar/salt solution):
Animal cell: As the cell has a low water potential, water would travel out of the cell, through the cell membrane due to osmosis. The concentration of water is higher inside the cell. [Osmosis is when water molecules travel from a high concentration of water molecules to a low concentration of water molecules, through a partially permeable membrane]. This would cause the cell to become smaller.

Plant cell: As above. The cell becomes flaccid.

Low solute concentration:
Animal cell: In this case, inside the cell has more water potential. This means that water will go from the solution into the cell. As it is an animal cell, with no cell wall, this would cause the animal cell to burst.

Plant cell: As above, but cell does not burst. The cell becomes instead turgid with water. It does not burst because of it's cellulose cell wall. Turgid plant cells help give plants more support on staying upright.

Depending on the water potential of the cell and the solution, this will determine which way the osmosis process will swing. If the cell has a lower water potential (less water molecules), then water molecules from the solution will enter the cell.
If the cell has a higher water potential (more water molecules), then water molecules from the cell will enter the solution.

Answer 2

Both kinds of cells will react the same way. Both kinds of solutions will cause the same effect. It is all one question. A cell will lose or gain water due to osmosis.

If the solution outside has more solutes in it then water will flow out of the cell to attempt to equalize the concentration. If instead the solution outside has less solutes then water will flow into the cell in an attempt to equalize the concentration. That process will continue until either the concentrations are equal or the cell membrane bursts.

Answer 3

One of the following three things could
happen:
1. Water molecules are free to pass
across the cell membrane in both
directions, but if the medium surrounding the cell has
a higher water concentration than the
cell, then 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, water crosses the cell membrane
in both directions, 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, water crosses the cell
membrane in both directions, but this
time more water leaves the cell than
enters it. Therefore the cell will shrink.

Answer 4

Well, water molecules move by osmosis from the cytoplasm of the animal cell (high water concentration) into the concentrated solution (low water concentration) through the cell membrane. The animal cell loses water & becomes smaller. It shrinks.
Water molecules move by osmosis from the cytoplasm of the plant cell & its sap (high water concentration) to the concentrated solution (low water concentration) through the cell membrane. The cell membrane detaches from the cell wall. The concentrated solution begins to fill the spaces between the cell wall & its membrane. The plant cell becomes soft, ie, flaccid.

Answer 5

In salt water water will leave the cell due to osmosis in relation to the surface area : volume ratio.