In Culinary class, Jennifer roads a recipe that noods wited spinach and decides to use salt to propare the leaves. She places th
e spinach in a solution of 8% salt, which causes the plant cols to shrink since they normally have an internal salt concentration of 0.9% salt. Which statement best explains why the cells shrink?
Sall causes the cell membrane to swet and absorb water trom the cytoplam
Sat moves from the 8 sal solution into the cell and chemically bind with water
Water moestrom the cell through the cell membrane to an area of lower water concentration
O Water moves from a lower concentration of water in colis cytoplasm into the nucles and colorganelles
The cell shrinks because of the movement of water away from the cell into the more concentrated salt solution.
Osmosis is the movement of water from one region to another through a semi - permeable membrane. A hypertonic solution contains more solute than the cell.
In this case, the external salt solution is hypertonic because it contains a 8% salt concentration whereas the cell contains only a 0.9% salt concentration. As such, water moves out of the cell into the solution.
The cell shrinks because of the movement of water away from the cell into the more concentrated salt solution.
