In an environment that is low in glucose, a cell has a high concentration of...

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...glucose. How is this possible? Is tonicity (the environment is hypotonic to the cell) enough evidence to support this question?
 
Eventually, though, the cell will try to reach a kind of equilibrium with diffusion (moving solute from a higher concentration to a lower concentration).
I don't think that saying the environment is hypotonic is enough. Maybe saying the cell has a semi-permeable membrane that does not allow the passage of glucose (or has no transport proteins/means of moving glucose along its concentration gradient) is a better answer.
 
Eventually, though, the cell will try to reach a kind of equilibrium with diffusion (moving solute from a higher concentration to a lower concentration).
I don't think that saying the environment is hypotonic is enough. Maybe saying the cell has a semi-permeable membrane that does not allow the passage of glucose (or has no transport proteins/means of moving glucose along its concentration gradient) is a better answer.
 
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