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complete the following passage. its a sad day. you bought a fish at the pet store and added it to your saltwater tank. checking on it the next morning, you find your new friend has gone belly - up. only then do you realize that you bought a freshwater fish! it seems that you put your fish into a environment and, due to has flowed your pets cells. into osmosis active transport salt hypertonic hypotonic out of water isotonic transport
Freshwater fish in salt - water tank means the fish is in a hypertonic environment compared to its cells. Osmosis is the process by which water moves across a semi - permeable membrane from an area of lower solute concentration (inside the fish cells) to an area of higher solute concentration (the saltwater tank). So water flows out of the fish's cells.
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It seems that you put your fish into a hypertonic environment and, due to osmosis, water has flowed out of your pet's cells.