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You set up an experiment. You have three chicken eggs that have been decalcified (shell softened) by vinegar and soaked in 20% glucose. Only the plasma membrane of the egg remains.You place the 3 eggs into three beakers with unknown solutions (labeled A, B, and C). You know that one of the solutions is distilled water, one is a 20% glucose solution, and one is a 40% glucose solution. You let the eggs sit in the unknown solutions for an hour and let osmosis occur.The egg in solution A gains mass. The egg in solution B maintains mass. The egg in solution C looses mass.For your response to this question list the tonicity of the solution relative to the egg.The solution is _______to egg A.hypertonicisotonichypotonicThe solution is _______to egg B.hypertonicisotonichypotonicThe solution is _______to egg C.hypertonicisotonichypotonic

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Solution A is hypertonic; solution B is isotonic; solution C is hypotonic.
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