What happen to an animal cell when placed in Hypotonic solution??

Question

Hypotonic slution makes a cell lose water by osmosis causeing the cell to shrink!

Answer 1

No...A hypotonic solution has a lower concentration of solutes than the cell does, and thus has a higher concentration of water than the cell. When an animal cell is placed in a hypotonic solution, there is a net movement of water INTO the cell, causing the cell to swell and to burst.

It is a hypertonic solution that causes a cell to shrivel up...

Answer 2

Animal Cell In Hypotonic Solution

Answer 3

Being placed in a hypotonic solution means that the cell is placed in an environment where the salt concentration outside is lesser than the salt concentration inside the cell. Therefore, as a result of osmosis....the solvent will diffuse inside the cell( from lower conc of salt to higher conc) the cell will swell and wil eventually burst.

Answer 4

A cell in a HYPERtonic solution will lose water and shrink because outside of the cell has less water and more solutes than the actual cell. Water will always go from where there is more of it to where there is less of it.

Answer 5

the first answer is so wrong