Question

Explain how a shortage of water affects the health of your cells. Use words such as osmosis, hypertonic solution, or isotonic solution in the answer

Answer 1

A shortage of water is what would cause a cell to become hypertonic where the cell could shrink/shrivel due to the lower concentration of water and higher concentration of intracellular fluid. Osmosis is the flow of water from a high gradient to a lower one, in order to reach an isotonic level( where the ICF and water are equal) osmosis would therefore have to fix this problem within the cell