Question
What will happen to a human chee aced in salt water? Water will move both into and out of the cell. Water will move into the cell. Water will move out of the cell. Water will neither move into nor out of the cell.
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Answer
Water will move out of the cell.
Explanation
When a human cheek cell is placed in salt water, the environment outside the cell is hypertonic (higher concentration of solutes) compared to the inside of the cell. This causes water to move out of the cell to balance the solute concentration, leading to cell shrinkage.