Question

When an animal cell is placed in a hypotonic solution, _____.

Answer 1

"When animal cells are placed in a hypotonic solution, they will take in water due to osmosis. If the solution in which they areplaced is a low enough concentration, such as distilled water, the intake of water will make the cells swell up and eventually burst."

Answer 2

Answer:

The correct answer would be it will burst.

When an animal cell is placed in a hypotonic solution, the water will move into the cell due to osmosis.

Osmosis refers to the movement of water from the region of low concentration of solute to the region of high concentration of the solute across a semi-permeable membrane.

Hypotonic solution refers to the solution which has low solute concentration as compared to the intra-cellular concentration. Low solute concentration leads to the high water potential due to which water moves into the cell.

The excess movement of water into the cell will eventually leads to the lysis or bursting the animal cell.