You get home from school and grab a bag of potato chips before settling onto the couch to binge watch your newest Netflix series. A few hours later, you notice that all of the chips are gone and you feel very thirsty. You get up to go to the bathroom before grabbing a drink and notice your urine is exceptionally dark in color. Apply what you know about osmosis to explain what has happen to the cells in your body. Include the name for the type of solution the cells were in after eating and how the cells attempted to maintain homeostasis despite these salty conditions.

Potato chips have a lot of salt in them, and the salts from eating a bag of potato chips causes the extracellular fluid in the body to become concentrated with salt (a hypertonic Solution). In response to this, intercellular fluids are ejected to the sorrounding by osmotic movement, to balance out the salt concentration of the fluid outside. This action can lead to some cell shrinking and dying from excess water loss, and that is seen in the dark color of your urine.

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The movement of a solution over a semipermeable membrane from a higher concentration to a lower concentration is known as osmosis.

The intracellular fluid came out to get dissolved with the salt by eating potato chips.

The solution is hypertonic.

The cells maintained homeostasis by moving the cellular fluid from higher concentration to lower concentration.

Osmosis and the reaction of cells in the body

Osmosis is the process of movement of fluid from higher concentration to lower concentration.

Osmosis helped the cell by moving the fluid from the cell to the outside to compensate for the excessive amount of salt in the body.

The solution will be hypertonic, a hypertonic solution is a solution when the presence of solute is higher than the inside the cell.

The cells maintained homeostasis by moving the cellular fluid from higher concentration (inside the cell) to lower concentration (outside the cell).

Thus, this is the explanation to the question.

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