If you soak your hands in dishwater, you may notice that your skin absorbs water

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If you soak your hands in dishwater, you may notice that your skin absorbs water and swells into wrinkles. This is because your skin cells are____________ to the ____________ dishwater. hypotonic hellip hypertonic hypertonic hellip hypotonic hypotonic hellip hypotonic isotonic hellip hypotonic hypertonic hellip isotonic You decide to buy a new fish for your freshwater aquarium when you introduce the fish into its new tank, the up and dies. You later learn that it was afish from the ocean. Based on what you fish swells know of tonicity, the most likely explanation is that the unfortunate fish went from a(n)_____________ solution into a(n) ___________solution. hypotonic hellip hypertonic. hypertonic hellip isotonic Isotonic hellip hypotonic hypotonic hellip isotonic hypertonic hellip isotonic In osmosis, water always moves toward the__________ solution: that is, toward the solution with the __________ solute concentration. isotonic hellip greater hypotonic hellip greater hypertonic hellip lesser hypertonic hellip greater hypotonic hellip lesser The concentration of solutes in a red blood cell is about 2%. Sucrose cannot pass through the membrane, but water and urea can. osmosis would cause red blood cells to shrink the most when immersed in which of the following solutions? a hypotonic urea solution a hypotonic sucrose solution a hypertonic urea solution a hypertonic sucrose solution pure water Sea water is dangerous to drink because one cup of sea water contains enough sodium to poison you. sea water is hypertonic to your body tissues and drinking it will cause you to lose water. sea water is isotonic to your body fluids and you will absorb too much water. the salt causes hypertension and you will promptly die of a stroke. it contains toxic levels of iodine.

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Answer 1. hypertonic…hypotonic

Answer 2. isotonic…hypotonic

Answer 3. hypertonic…greater

Answer 4. a hypertonic sucrose solution

Answer 5. sea water is hypertonic to your body tissues and drinking it will cause you to lose water.

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