Answer:
The correct answer is option a. "the cells will shrink due to water loss by the cell".
Explanation:
Cells placed in a hypertonic solution will shrink due to water loss by the cell. An hypertonic solution has a high content of solutes dissolved, which makes it a solution with high tonicity. Water tends to move from a solution of low tonicity to a solution with high tonicity. As a result, cells placed in a hypertonic solution will start to loss their inner water and shrink, which causes its death.
Note that Facilitated diffusion , Active transport and Osmosis are three different ways of transporting substances across the cell surface membrane.
Facilitated diffusion is the movement of a substance from high to low concentration , similar to simple diffusion , but due to the complexity of the cell surface membrane , polar molecules and ions cannot just pass like that , so they pass through specific carrier and channel proteins in the cell surface membrane and so we call it facilitated diffusion.
For Active transport , it's the movement from low to high concentraion using energy from ATP
For Osmosis , it's totally different . You only name osmosis when its all about water . Its the net movement of water from high water potential to low water potential through partially permeable membrane .
If you're doing AS , you'll be familiar with Endosmosis and Exosmosis.
