If a Red Blood Cell Is Placed in a Hypertonic

question 24

Multiple Choice

If a red blood cell is placed in a hypertonic solution,what happens to it?

• A) It will burst.
• B) It will shrink.
• C) There will be no change in the red blood cell.
• D) Water will move into the red blood cell faster than it will move out.

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Definitions:

Normal Distribution

A statistical distribution which is evenly spread around the mean, indicating that occurrences close to the mean are more common than those further away.

Frequency Distributions

Showcases how often each different value in a set of data occurs.

Normal Distributions

A distribution that resembles the shape of a bell, symmetrically centered around the average, indicating that values close to the mean are more commonly observed than those further away from the mean.

Skewed

Describes a distribution of data that is asymmetrical, where the bulk of the values lie on one side of the mean, either to the right (positive skew) or to the left (negative skew).