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A doctor injects a patient with what the doctor thinks is an isotope saline solution. The patient dies, and an autopsy reveals that many red blood cells have been destroyed. Do you think the solution the doctor injected was really isotonic? What type of solution must it have been?

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Answer:

No

Explanation:

It must have been hypotonic as a hypotonic solution would cause water to enter the cells, thereby making them burst.

Answer:

The solution was not really isotonic. An isotonic solution would not cause any changes between the inner and external environment of cells (red blood cells in this case). The solution must be hypotonic.

Explanation:

A hypotonic solution has lower solute and higher water than inside the cell. Therefore water passes through the cell membrane entering red blood cells, leading to bursting.

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