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30 August, 09:50

An animal cell containing 15% sucrose is placed into a solution containing 70% sucrase. assuming that sucrose cannot readily cross the cell membrane, what will likely happen to the cell over the course of a 24 â€" 48 hour period

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  1. 30 August, 11:49
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    Sucrose cannot pass the cell membrane, but water molecules can.

    By the given percentages, we can conclude that the animal cell has a higher water potential, because it has a lower sucrose concentration. Meanwhile the solution has a lower water potential, since it has a higher sucrose concentration.

    In this way, water molecules will move from the cell to the solution, due to osmosis.

    Osmosis is always the water molecules, moving from a region of higher water potential to a region of lower water potential, through a semi permeable membrane, which is the cell membrane.

    So what would happen is that the cell will shrink, because it lose so much water.
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