Osmosis And Diffusion Lab

Lab Introduction:
A cell needs to maintain homeostasis. In order for cells to reach homeostasis they regulate certain materials through selectively permeable membranes. In cells the primary solvent or the solvent of life is water, so a solution where water is the solvent it is called an aqueous solution. The movement of a substance from an area of high concentration to an area of low concentration is known as diffusion. The diffusion of water is called osmosis in which water moves slowly across a selectively permeable membrane. Hypertonic, hypotonic, and isotonic environments are the three environments are used to compare solutions that are divided by a membrane that is selectively permeable. A Hypertonic environment is when there is a higher