Medical student's opinion:
The pressure acting on your cells has 2 forms:
- Oncotic pressure due to the difference in tonicity of the solution vs the cell
- Hydrostatic pressure due to the difference in physical pressures of outside vs cell
Swimming in hypotonic solution (your cells are hypertonic to it) will cause your cells to absorb some water. This is why your skin wrinkles (absorbing water and expanding your skin beyond the normal size).
However, absorbing that water increases the amount of water in your body/cells which have a limited ability to stretch. The more water absorbed the less they can stretch and therefor the greater the amount of hydrostatic pressure pushing back. (Think of blowing up a soccer ball, at some point it becomes very difficult to put more air in)
Eventually the hydrostatic pressure pushing back will equal the oncotic pressure pushing in and your body comes to equilibrium without popping.
our cells only allow some water to come in because the cell membrane is selectively permeable (only allows some things to enter and exit). and our cells do absorb some water which makes us prune. also the surface of our skin is mostly dead cells.
The poly carbons are extremely diverse in the populations of h20. The myochondricils have spores that absorb pressure which in turn makes you "not explode".
it will shrink the cell when place on hyper tonic solution, otherwise it will swell in contrary
Plants swell when hypertonic in hypotonic solutions of impermeable materials
as u know, seawater is salty ,that is hypertonic.. when u place RBC in sea water it will swell and then burst.
hypertonic solution
The cells of the epidermis (skin) absorb water and swell up.
Because our skin protects us!!
Most are. A notable exception is urine. The kidneys are able to concentrate the salts and nitrogenous wastes in the urine so as to conserve water. A dehydrated person will produce very concentrated, hypertonic urine.
If a cell is placed into a hypotonic solution, the water will flow into the cell causing it to swell and possibly lyse. If a cell is placed into a hypertonic solution, the water will flow out of the cell causing it to crenate. So hemolysis occurs when the red blood cells lyse.
Any solution with more H2O than inside the cell will cause the cell to swell. Animal cells will burst under a lot of pressure, but plant cells will not, due to the presence of a cell well surrounding the cell. In other words, a hypotonic solution will cause a cell to swell, and a hypertonic solution will cause a cell to shrink. Hypo -> hyper
A hypertonic solution will cause the cell to shrink as water leaves the intracellular fluid due to osmosis. A hypotonic solution will lead to water crossing into the cell membrane, causing it to swell, leading to hemolysis.
No. Your cells need salt in then to swell. Also "lyse" means to break. Your cells do not break when and if you drink water. So the answer is no.
Possibly b/c of the body fluids building up