Osmosis Lab
Mylana Gerard December 20, 2012 10D
Introduction:
The cell membrane is a protection from anything outside the cell and anything inside of the cell. The purpose of the cell membrane is to selectively choose what comes in the cell. It’s permeable and able to regulate what enters and exits the cell, which is facilitating the transport of materials needed for survival. Cell membranes aren’t in just one specific kind of cell because it’s in every cell. The cell membrane is supposed to hold up the structure of the cell keeping all organisms in alignment. Osmosis is the movement of solvent molecules through a partially permeable membrane into a region of higher solute concentration, in order to equalize the solute concentrations on the two sides. We didn 't know anything about osmosis except that it was a word in the dictionary that we never picked up. Osmosis and diffusion are similar because osmosis is the result of diffusion across a semi-permeable membrane. If two solutions of different concentration are separated by a semi-permeable membrane, then the solvent will most likely to diffuse across the membrane from the less concentrated to the more concentrated solution, which is osmosis.
Some real life events of osmosis are cells in the human body and in the bodies of all living things behave like microscopic bags of solution housed in a semi permeable membrane. The health and indeed the very survival of a person, animal, or plant depend on the ability of its recovery. Osmosis has several implications where medical care is concerned, particularly in the case of the storage of vitally important red blood cells. These are normally kept in a plasma solution, which is isotonic to the cells when it contains specific proportions of salts and proteins. However, if red blood cells are placed in a hypotonic solution, or one with a lower solute concentration than in the cells themselves, this can be highly detrimental. The purpose of this lab is to
Introduction:
The cell membrane is a protection from anything outside the cell and anything inside of the cell. The purpose of the cell membrane is to selectively choose what comes in the cell. It’s permeable and able to regulate what enters and exits the cell, which is facilitating the transport of materials needed for survival. Cell membranes aren’t in just one specific kind of cell because it’s in every cell. The cell membrane is supposed to hold up the structure of the cell keeping all organisms in alignment. Osmosis is the movement of solvent molecules through a partially permeable membrane into a region of higher solute concentration, in order to equalize the solute concentrations on the two sides. We didn 't know anything about osmosis except that it was a word in the dictionary that we never picked up. Osmosis and diffusion are similar because osmosis is the result of diffusion across a semi-permeable membrane. If two solutions of different concentration are separated by a semi-permeable membrane, then the solvent will most likely to diffuse across the membrane from the less concentrated to the more concentrated solution, which is osmosis.
Some real life events of osmosis are cells in the human body and in the bodies of all living things behave like microscopic bags of solution housed in a semi permeable membrane. The health and indeed the very survival of a person, animal, or plant depend on the ability of its recovery. Osmosis has several implications where medical care is concerned, particularly in the case of the storage of vitally important red blood cells. These are normally kept in a plasma solution, which is isotonic to the cells when it contains specific proportions of salts and proteins. However, if red blood cells are placed in a hypotonic solution, or one with a lower solute concentration than in the cells themselves, this can be highly detrimental. The purpose of this lab is to
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