Assertion: If red blood cells were removed from the body and placed in pure water, pressure inside the cells increases. Reason: The concentration of salt content in the cells increases.

Question

Assertion: If red blood cells were removed from the body and placed in pure water, pressure inside the cells increases. Reason: The concentration of salt content in the cells increases. (A) If both assertion and reason are true and reason is the correct explanation of the assertion (B) If both assertion and reason are true but reason is not the correct explanation of the assertion (C) If assertion is true, but reason is false (D) Both assertion and reason are false statements

Tardigrade Admin · Accepted Answer

When a solution is separated from the pure solvent by means of a semipermeable membrane, the pure solvent passes through the membrane and goes to solution and a hydrostatic pressure is set up which is called as the osmotic pressure of the solution. So when red blood cells were placed in pure water, the concentration. of water is increase in the cell due to osmosis and the concentration of salt content would increase in the solution, or decrease in cell so the assertion is true but reason is false.

Q. Assertion : If red blood cells were removed from the body and placed in pure water, pressure inside the cells increases. Reason : The concentration of salt content in the cells increases.

If both assertion and reason are true and reason is the correct explanation of the assertion

If both assertion and reason are true but reason is not the correct explanation of the assertion

If assertion is true, but reason is false

Both assertion and reason are false statements

Q. Assertion : If red blood cells were removed from the body and placed in pure water, pressure inside the cells increases.
Reason : The concentration of salt content in the cells increases.