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  • What are the consequences of the following conditions? (a) A cell containing higher water concentration than the surrounding medium (b) A cell having low water concentration than the surrounding medium.

What are the consequences of the following conditions?

(a) A cell containing higher water concentration than the surrounding medium

(b) A cell having low water concentration than the surrounding medium.

(c) A cell having equal water concentration to its surrounding medium.

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a) Cells contain higher water content than surrounding leading to exosmosis (loss of water from cell in the presence of hypertonic environment).

b) Cells having low water concentration than the surrounding medium leads to endosmosis (movement of water into the cell in the presence of hypotonic solution).

c) Cells having equal water concentration to its surrounding medium: have no net water movement across the membrane. Therefore, isotonic.

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