Concepts of Biology
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Author: Samantha Fowler, Rebecca Roush, James Wise
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Figure 3.22 A doctor injects a patient with what he thinks is isotonic saline solution. The patient dies, and autopsy reveals that many red blood cells have been destroyed. Do you think the solution the doctor injected was really isotonic?
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