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What happens to an animal cell that is placed in a hypotonic solution? what is the condition called?

What happens to an animal cell that is placed in a hypotonic solution? what is the condition called?
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What happens to an animal cell that is placed in a hypotonic solution? what is the condition called?

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The cell would swell to the point it would eventually burst or lyse and its called cytolysis
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The cell would expand and eventually burst. This is called cytolysis.
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