The Cell Will Shrink
Hypertonic solutions have less water ( and more solute such as salt or sugar ) than a cell. Seawater is hypertonic. If you place an animal or a plant cell in a hypertonic solution, the cell shrinks, because it loses water ( water moves from a higher concentration inside the cell to a lower concentration outside ).
Naturalists referred to Amoeba as the Proteus animalcule
after the Greek godProteus who could change his shape. The name "amibe"
was given to it by Bory de Saint-Vincent,[3] from the Greek meaning change
