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Dialysis tubing is permeable to water molecules but not too sucrose. Three dialysis tubes are filled with various solutions and placed in the beakers. Tube 1 contains 100% water, Tube 2 contains a 60% sucrose solution, and Tube 3 contains pure water but is submerged in a 60% sucrose solution.

Question: Which tube will experience the greatest loss of water? Explain your answer using terms such as (hypotonic, hypertonic, isotonic, solute concentration, water concentration, homeostasis) *

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Answer:

tube 3

Step-by-step explanation:

because it contains pure water

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