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A doctor injects a patient with what the doctor thinks is an isotope saline solution. The patient dies, and an autopsy reveals that many red blood cells have been destroyed. Do you think the solution the doctor injected was really isotonic? What type of solution must it have been?

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Answer:

hypotonic as a hypotonic solution

Step-by-step explanation:

would cause water to enter the cells, thereby making them burst.

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