Which one of the following will be resulted when an animal cell is surrounded by a medium with lower concentration of water?
Cell will lose water
No change in movement of water
Cell will gain water
Cell will swell up
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UPSC NDA-2 – 2022
Osmosis is the movement of water across a semi-permeable membrane from a region of higher water potential (lower solute concentration) to a region of lower water potential (higher solute concentration). A medium with a “lower concentration of water” means it has a higher concentration of solutes compared to the cell’s cytoplasm; such a medium is hypertonic to the cell. Therefore, water will move by osmosis from inside the cell (higher water concentration) to the surrounding medium (lower water concentration).