A hypotonic solution is less concentrated than the cell interior. So, when a cell is placed in a hypotonic saline solution, water will enter the cell causing it to swell. Therefore, the correct option is 2.
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A hypotonic solution has a lower concentration of solute than the cell. This means that in the cell interior, the solute concentration is higher than in the solution itself.
When a cell is in a hypotonic solution, through osmosis, water moves toward the cell.
Osmosis is the phenomenon that occurs when two dilutions of different concentrations -in this example, the interior of the cell and the solution- are separated by a semipermeable membrane. The membrane allows the pass of water but not solute. Hence, water can move from the most diluted side to the less diluted one.
Water tends to go from the hypotonic solution to the cell interior and keeps doing so until concentrations are equal in the cell interior and exterior.
As water enters the cell, the cell begins to enlarge and becomes bigger-sized. And because cells can not limit the amount of water moving into it, the cell keeps swelling until the membrane can not stretch anymore, and lysis occurs. It bursts.
Under natural conditions, the body regulates the extracellular fluids to avoid cells swelling until they burst.
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