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What would happen to a sample of your red blood cells if they were placed in

a hyptonic solution?

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im not sure if you meant hypertonic or hypotonic but i’ll just give you both :)

hypertonic: the red blood cell will shrink and could possibly die if being placed in a hypertonic solution

hypotonic: if it’s being places in a hypotonic solution, the red blood cell will swell
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