What happens to the movement of water when a cell is placed in a hypotonic solution?

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Brennen

13 June, 02:10

What happens to the movement of water when a cell is placed in a hypotonic solution?

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Eddie Lawrence · Answer 1

Water can move across membranes, but polar solutes dissolved in water cannot. The net movement of water (osmosis) is in the direction of increased solute concentrations ... A hypotonic solution has decreased solute concentration, and a net movement of water inside the cell, causing swelling or breakage.