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Please helpppp this is for biology 1

when an egg is soaked in vinegar and then dipped in corn syrup is it hypotonic or isotonic?

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Water is known as hypotonic, ie. very dilute and contains more water than the egg. If instead you place the vinegar soaked egg in corn syrup you will see the opposite. There is a much higher water concentration in the egg than in the syrup so water will pass in the opposite direction.

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