tonicity cell membrane

Question 1

what is tonicity

Answer 1

strength of a solution

Question 2

what is a isotonic solution

Answer 2

concentration is the same on both sides of the membrane

Question 3

what is a hypertonic solution

Answer 3

one side of the cell membrane is greater concentration than the other

Question 4

what is it called when a cell is a hypertonic solution

Answer 4

the cell shrinks or crenates due to the loss of water

Question 5

what is hypotonic solution

Answer 5

one side of the cell membrane is lesser in concentration

Question 6

what happens to a cell when it’s hypotonic

Answer 6

it swells or burst due to the intake of water

Question 7

what is it called when swells or burst due to the intake of water

Answer 7

lysis/hypotonic

Question 8

what is endocytosis

Answer 8

material are brought in cell with use of vesicles that fuse plasma membrane

Question 9

what is cell eating called or endocytosis do

Answer 9

phagocytosis

Question 10

what is pinocytosis

Answer 10

cell drinking involves small particles

Question 11

what is exocytosis

Answer 11

removal of a.material from a cell with vesicles that fuses membrane (opposite of endocytosis)