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1. Why wouldn't bacteria be able to
survive on salted fish? Explain using the
concept of osmosis.

1 Why Wouldnt Bacteria Be Able To Survive On Salted Fish Explain Using The Concept Of Osmosis class=

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Imagine you have a cup that has 100ml water, and you add 15g of table sugar to the water. The sugar dissolves and the mixture that is now in the cup is made up of a solute (the sugar) that is dissolved in the solvent (the water). The mixture of a solute in a solvent is called a solution.

Salt kills some types of bacteria, mainly by sucking water out of them and this process called as osmosis. Osmosis is refer to as a water passes out of a bacterium so as to balance salt concentrations on each side of its cell membrane. At that time bacteria inside act as hypotonic medium.

What is hypotonic solution?

A solution will be hypertonic to a cell if its solute concentration is higher than that inside the cell, and the solutes cannot cross the membrane.

Without water, bacterial also proteins such as enzymes cannot function and generally the cell collapses in on itself.

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