Question

you decide to try your hand at canning pickles. you immerse freshly - picked cucumbers in a solution that has a solute concentration twice that found in the cucumber cells. you allow your preparation to cure for several months in a sealed jar. when you later open the jar, you find that the fluid surrounding the pickles is more dilute than when you started. this change in concentration is due to ________

Explanation:

Osmosis is the movement of water from an area of lower solute concentration to an area of higher solute concentration. Since the solution has a solute concentration twice that of cucumber cells (hypertonic), water will move out of the cucumber cells (pickles) into the solution through osmosis, diluting the solution. Active transport requires energy and is not relevant here. Hypotonic solutions have lower solute - concentration than the cells, which is not the case here.

Answer:

pickles in a hypertonic solution losing water through osmosis