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If the concentration of a sugar solution is lower outside the cell than inside the cell, which will happen by osmosis?

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The hypertonic solution has a lower water concentration than the hypotonic solution, so a concentration gradient of water now exists across the membrane. ... On the other extreme, a red blood cell that is hypotonic (lower concentration outside the cell) will result in more water flowing into the cell than out.

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Water molecules will move out of the cell

Step-by-step explanation:

We are given that the concentration of a sugar solution is lower outside the cell than inside the cell. This means that a concentration gradient of water now exists across the membrane.

In Osmosis, we know that water molecules move from a less concentrated solution into a more concentrated one.

So in this case, water molecules will move out of the cell.

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