Recall what you know about hypertonic, hypotonic, and isotonic solutions. When an environment is hypotonic, what happens to the cell?(1 point) Responses The environment has more solute, so solvent moves from outside the cell to inside, causing the cell to swell. The environment has more solute, so solvent moves from outside the cell to inside, causing the cell to swell. The cell has more solute, so solvent moves from inside the cell to outside, causing the cell to shrink. The cell has more solute, so solvent moves from inside the cell to outside, causing the cell to shrink. The cell has more solute, so solvent moves from outside the cell to inside, causing the cell to swell. The cell has more solute, so solvent moves from outside the cell to inside, causing the cell to swell. The environment has more solute, so solvent moves from inside the cell to outside, causing the cell to shrink.

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Recall what you know about hypertonic, hypotonic, and isotonic solutions. When an environment is hypotonic, what happens to the cell?(1 point) Responses The environment has more solute, so solvent moves from outside the cell to inside, causing the cell to swell. The environment has more solute, so solvent moves from outside the cell to inside, causing the cell to swell. The cell has more solute, so solvent moves from inside the cell to outside, causing the cell to shrink. The cell has more solute, so solvent moves from inside the cell to outside, causing the cell to shrink. The cell has more solute, so solvent moves from outside the cell to inside, causing the cell to swell. The cell has more solute, so solvent moves from outside the cell to inside, causing the cell to swell. The environment has more solute, so solvent moves from inside the cell to outside, causing the cell to shrink.

Answer 1

The correct answer is: The environment has more solute, so solvent moves from outside the cell to inside, causing the cell to swell.

Answer 2

When an environment is hypotonic, the correct answer is: The environment has more solute, so solvent moves from outside the cell to inside, causing the cell to swell.

Answer 3

When an environment is hypotonic, it means that the concentration of solute outside the cell is lower than inside the cell. In this case, the correct response is:

The environment has more solute, so solvent moves from outside the cell to inside, causing the cell to swell.

To understand why this happens, we need to know the concept of osmosis. Osmosis is the movement of solvent (usually water) across a selectively permeable membrane from an area of lower solute concentration to an area of higher solute concentration.

In a hypotonic solution, there is a higher concentration of solute inside the cell compared to the outside. As a result, water molecules tend to move from the hypotonic environment (lower solute concentration) into the cell (higher solute concentration) through the cell membrane.

Since water is moving into the cell, the cell gains water and expands or swells. This process is known as cytolysis. The cell membrane stretches and can even burst in extreme cases.

Therefore, in a hypotonic environment, the cell swells as water enters it.