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Hypoosmotic

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"... a term describing organisms with body fluids with a higher concentration of water and lower solute concentration than the external environment." Taken from Ecology by Manuel C. Molles Jr.

Thus if a cell is hypo-osmotic, water will flow out and solutes will flow in,so that the relative concentrations are equal in and out of the cell; there is an isotopic environment.

Actually, solutes won't flow in....only water molecules move during true osmosis

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