Question

When a vegetable is placed in very salty water, the vegetable becomes soft and collapses. why does this happen?

A. water fills up the cells of the vegetable.
B. the cells of the vegetable lose their water.
C. the cells of the vegetable lose their salt
D. salt fills up the cells of the vegetable

Answer 1

The answer is B, because salt water has lots salt, and little water. The cells lose their water content and fill up with salt, causing ti to collapse.

Answer 2

Answer: The correct answer is B) The cells of the vegetable lose their water.

Osmosis is defined as the movement of solvent (like water) from a region where the concentration of solute(like salt) is lower to a region where the concentration of solute is higher through a semipermeable membrane.

Salt water is a hypertonic solution as the concentration of salt ( solute) is higher. Therefore, in this case water from vegetable will move outside causing the cells to become fragile.

Thus, option B) is the right answer.