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Describe what will happen when a red blood cell is placed in:

- hypotonic solution
- hypertonic solution
- isotonic solution

In your description you must write about:
- water movement
- what will happen to the cell.

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Describe what will happen when a red blood cell is placed in:

Hypotonic Solution ⇒ The red cell would burst due to the influx of water. The water would have moved out of the cell which cause it to shrink. Red blood cells don't have the cell wall and contractile vacuoles and as well as it would not be able to maintain their shape leading to their rupture.

Hypertonic solution ⇒ A cell loses its H2O molecules when it is placed in hypertonic solution. Hypertonic solution is the one which contain more concentration of solutes as compared to the concentration of solutes in cytoplasm of cell. Which means that a solution contains less water as compared to the water within the cell.

Isotonic solution ⇒ When a red blood cell is placed in an isotonic solution, there will be no movement of water. Both the concentration of solute and water are equal both intracellularly and extracellularly

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