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A Red Blood Cell Placed in a Beaker of Solution

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A red blood cell placed in a beaker of solution immediately begins to swell and ultimately bursts. This occurs because the cytoplasm of the cell was ____ to the solution in the beaker, which was ____.


A) hypertonic; hypotonic
B) hypotonic; hypertonic
C) hypotonic; isotonic
D) hypertonic; isotonic
E) isotonic; hypotonic

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