Answer:
The water will flow from the inside of the cell to the fluid outside the cell. This means that the solution would be <u>hypertonic</u>.
It will happen to the tubes that have a higher concentration of solutes in the fluid outside cells than inside the cells.
Explanation:
When a cell is in a hypotonic solution, it means that the concentration of solute in the solution is higher than the one in the cell. As a natural reaction, the cell tries to balance this difference. To do this, the water that is inside the cell flows to the outside. As a result, the concentration between the inside and the outside of the cell becomes equal or more equitable. Besides, the cell shrinks due to the loss of water.
Atlantic Cod is a marine fish. The fish has less salt in its internal body while the salt concentration in the sea water in which the Cod lives is high. Thus through the process of osmosis ( a process in which an element moves across a permeable membrane from regions of high concentration to the regions of low concentration) the salt moves from the ocean into the fish body. In such scenario the metabolism of the fish body gets disturbed, and there is an urgent need to remove the excess salt with the help of Kidney (through extremely concentrated urine) by going against the concentration gradient in order to maintain the homeostasis.
