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Ifa swimmer cuts her foot on a seashell while wading in the ocean andbleeds into the seawater, her red blood cells will shrink. whatdoes this tell us about the relative tonicity of seawater. (is ithypotonic, hypertonic, isotonic to the the red blood cells?)explain what causes her red blood cells to shrink.

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Tonicity is the ability of an extracellular solution to transport water in an out of the cell by phenomenon of osmosis Hence tonicity measures the osmotic pressure gradient that exist    See Answer
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