Osmosis Investigation
Osmosis is a “type of diffusion where water passes through a
semi-permeable membrane from where water is in high concentration to a
low concentration.”
A French scientist (Jean-Antoine Nollett) discovered osmosis in 1748.
He discovered it by filling a pig’s bladder with alcohol. This was
then placed in water for several hours. The water had moved into the
pig’s bladder but very little alcohol had moved out. The pig’s bladder
was a semi-permeable membrane.
The particles in a liquid are constantly moving. When small particles
or water molecules meet a semi-permeable membrane they may pass
through. But larger particles, like glucose cannot get through the
membrane at all. If there is a high concentration of water molecules
on one side of the membrane, then water molecules will pass through
the membrane and the water appears to have moved through the membrane
to the lower concentration.
If the concentrations on both sides of the membrane are equal, then
there will be no movement of water. This is the Isotonic Point. In
this way we can find the concentration of cytoplasm. If the
concentration of a sugar solution that caused no osmosis to occur was
found, then the concentrations of both the sugar solution and the
cytoplasm must be equal.
This process happens in both plant and animal cells. Plants have a
strong cellulose wall surrounding them. So they gain water through
the roots by osmosis and move water into the plant cells using
osmosis. This is how plants become turgid or stiff, which helps keep
them upright. Then the pressure of the cell will rise so that no more
water can enter the cell. This is called “Hydrostatic pressure” it
works against osmosis. But when plants are faced with a low
concentrated water solution (sucrose) the will lose water and become
flaccid. Which is the opposite of turgid. So the plant cell will
shrink instead of grow. When a plant is placed in an equal
concentration solution between water and sugar then the plant will be
Considering the fact that Marc has both been sweating and drinking minimal amounts of water, Marc is now dehydrated. This means he has less than the required amount of water for his body to complete the processes necessary to maintain its health. As stated in the question, the process of sweating causes the loss of more water than solutes. This means that as the level of water decreases, the level of solute concentration will increase, creating a change in the water to solute ratio.
Plasmolysis However when the plant cell is placed in a more concentrated solution the water inside the cell passes out the cell. The cytoplasm... ... middle of paper ... ...
If the concentration of one side of the membrane is greater than the molecules will travel from the higher to lower concentration. Eventually there will be a dynamic equilibrium and there will be no net movement of molecules from one side to the other. Osmosis is the diffusion of water. Like diffusion, the water moves from a region of higher water potential to a region of lower water potential.
Osmosis is a type of diffusion which is only applied on water and is a passive process which does not require an input of energy from the cell; this is because materials are moving with the concentration gradient. Osmosis is a process that occurs at a cellular level, which entails the spontaneous net movement of water through a selectively permeable membrane, from a region of high to low water concentration, in order to equalise the level of water in each region. This form of diffusion takes place when the molecules in a high concentration are too large to move through the membrane. The term semi-permeable or selectively permeable means that some substances can easily pass through the cell membrane, whereas others cannot. The significance of osmosis to cells is great, since it is the osmotic pressure that maintains the shape of an animal cell and provides support in the plant cells. Many factors affect the rate of osmosis including size of particles and temperature however in this particular experiment the factor investigated is the concentration of sodium chloride. Tubes of potatoes will be used to demonstrate the fact...
When a cell membrane is said to be selectively permeable, it means that the cell membrane controls what substances pass in and out through the membrane. This characteristic of cell membranes plays a great role in passive transport. Passive transport is the movement of substances across the cell membrane without any input of energy by the cell. The energy for passive transport comes entirely from kinetic energy that the molecules have. The simplest type of passive transport is diffusion, which is the movement of molecules from an area of high concentration to an area of lower concentration. Diffusion
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Osmosis is the facilitated diffusion of water across the cell membrane of a cell. The inside layer of the cell membrane is hydrophilic, meaning water cannot easily pass through the membrane. The cell membrane has to have aquaporins, which are water channel proteins, that move the water across the membrane. If there is a water and salt solution outside the cell, the salt can enter the cell by diffusion, but the cell membrane is not permeable to the water. Because there is more solute solution inside the cell, there is less water. The aquaporins move the water across the membrane until equilibrium is reached.
If a plant cell is places in a hypotonic solution the cell has a lower water concentration to that of the solution. Water will move into the cell by osmosis from a high water concentration outside the cell to a lower water concentration inside the cell through a selectively permeable membrane. The cell becomes turbid
This type of transportation of a substance is helps to maintain life in plant cells. A plant cell’s objective is to constantly be surrounded by a hypertonic solution. In this circumstance water will flow into the cell causing it to swell and become turgid or very firm. This gives a plant the appearances of being healthy and sturdy.
Osmosis Investigation What is Osmosis? Osmosis is basically the movement of water molecules from a dilute system solution to a concentrated solution, through a partially permeable membrane. Water molecules are able to pass through the cell membrane because they diffuse whereas sugar molecules are larger and cannot diffuse as easily therefore not being able to pass through. Cell membranes are like visking tubes because they will let some substances through but not others. They are partially permeable membranes.
== == == = Osmosis is defined as the movement of water or any other solution's molecules from a region of highly concentrated solution to a region of less concentrated solution. This movement must take place across a partially permeable membrane such as a cell wall, which lets smaller molecules such as water through but does not allow bigger molecules to pass through.
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Osmosis is a biological process. If equilibrium is ever achieved, then water molecules will move. back and forth between the substances. If a surrounding sucrose solution has a lower water potential than the plant tissue in the solution, then, through osmosis water will move from the tissue into the. the surrounding solution, the tissue will lose mass and length as a result.
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