A teacher soaks eggs in vinegar overnight to remove the hard, outer shell. Each student is given two eggs and asked to place one in a cup filled with distilled water and the other in a cup with corn syrup.
What would you expect to happen to the egg in the distilled
1x water?

×
A
The egg will stay the same size as the amount of fluid leaving and entering the cell are at equilibrium.
1x
B
It will shrink as the yolk inside the cell shrinks.
1 x
C
The egg will regrow its hard, outer shell.
×
D
It will grow bigger as water enters the cell







What type of solution is the distilled water?
×
x
A
isotonic
x
B
hypertonic
1x
C
hypertonic
D
hypotonic