What happens to an animal cell placed in pure water?
Answer and explanation
Correct answer: C. It swells and may burst
- Step 1: Water enters by osmosis because the cell contains more solutes than the surrounding water.
Answer
It swells and may burst.
Why not the others: It shrinks, It stays the same and It makes more cell wall don't fit.
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