Question

Dense Denise is an emergency room nurse at Hopeless Hospital. She notices that the hospital is running short on blood, so she decides to dilute the blood with water to make it last longer. Later, Dr. Dingo, the attending physician gets ready to give a patient a transplant. As a precaution, he puts a sample under the microscope, sees this image. He immediately begins angrily barking at Denise. What happened to the blood cells?

Answer 1

When Denise mixed the blood with water, it formed Osmosis. There is water in the blood as well as a concentration of salt.

Answer 2

Answer:

The answer to the question: What happened to the blood cells, when Denise, the nurse, put the blood samples with water, to dilute the blood so that it would last longer, is, that the blood cells, through the process of osmosis, took in the water around them, swelled and ruptured.

Explanation:

Usually, when putting a pack of red blood cells inside a water solution will activate the cellular process of osmosis, which means, that the membrane of the cell allows water to trickle into it, as the volume of water outside the cell is higher than inside. In the process of equilibrium of concentration, the cell allows the water in, but it reaches a point when the amount in is too much and thus the cell bursts. What Dr. Dingo found under the microscope, then, was the red blood cells burst due to the water.