What will happen if a bacterial cell is placed in 10% NaCl with penicillin? The cell will undergo osmotic lysis. Penicillin will diffuse into the cell. Water will enter the cell. The cell will plasmolyze. No change will result; the solution is isotonic.

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Yasmine Delacruz

10 October, 13:08

What will happen if a bacterial cell is placed in 10% NaCl with penicillin? The cell will undergo osmotic lysis. Penicillin will diffuse into the cell. Water will enter the cell. The cell will plasmolyze. No change will result; the solution is isotonic.

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Broderick · Answer 1

The cell will plasmolyze

Explanation:

Plamolysis is a process that cells suffer and that is characterized by a loss of water.

By placing the bacterial cell in a solution of 10% NaCl with penicillin we will be facing different situations.

First, penicillin is an antibiotic that affects the cell wall by destroying it. By not having the cell wall, the bacteria is more vulnerable to everything outside.

When deposited in a hypertonic medium, this means that the concentration of solutes from outside is greater than that of the protoplast (cytoplasm). The water in the protoplast will start to flow out of it and the cell will shrink. This decrease in size causes the plasma membrane to separate from the cell wall.