Why do our fingers and toes wrinkled in both bath water and ocean water?

Subject: Why do our fingers and toes wrinkled in both bath water and ocean water?

Date: Sat Jan 16 03:06:34 1999
Posted by Yu Chen
Grade level: undergrad
School: Fashion Institute of Technology
City: NYC State/Province: NY
Country: USA
Area of science: General Biology
ID: 916477594.Gb

Message:


Bath water is a hypotonic solution, but the ocean water is a 
hypertonic solution.  Why do the tips of fingers and toes 
wrikled in two different solutions?

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