Sucrose And Osmosis Experiment
In this experiment, one of the big is osmosis, and how it had the overall impact in this excitement a little on osmosis. Osmosis takes place when two solutions of different concentrations are separated by a semi-permeable membrane in which the solvent can pass through but not the solute. In our experiment, we used a sucrose solution that will be a hypotonic concentration of solute. This tells us that the solution has a lower concentration of water than does the cells. Therefore, due to osmosis, the cells will gain water weight also proven in the experiment given.
If osmosis isn’t taking place usually diffusion is at work Diffusion is the net passive movement of particles from a region in which they are in higher concentration to regions of
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There is three types tonicity that come into play with osmosis. The first one we know is hypotonic. If the extracellular fluid has lower osmolarity the fluid inside the cell, it’s said to be hypotonic this means less than the cell, and the net flow of water will be into the cell.in the reverse case, if the extracellular fluid has a higher osmolarity than the cell’s cytoplasm, it’s said to be hypertonic. Hyper means greater than to the cell, and water will move out of the cell to the region of higher solute concentration. The last term would be isotonic which mean the same extracellular fluid has the same osmolarity as the cell, and there will move out of the cell to the region of higher solute concentration. Hypotonic, hypertonic, and isotonic are relative terms.
That is, they describe how one solution compares to another in terms of osmolarity. For instance, if the fluid inside a cell has higher osmolarity. A good example to prove my point would by are an experiment of how it's hypotonic. As the cell goes into the water the fluid of the water in the beaker will flow into sucrose cell the longer it’s the cell the more water weight it will gain making it a hypotonic
If osmosis isn’t taking place usually diffusion is at work Diffusion is the net passive movement of particles from a region in which they are in higher concentration to regions of
lower …show more content…
There is three types tonicity that come into play with osmosis. The first one we know is hypotonic. If the extracellular fluid has lower osmolarity the fluid inside the cell, it’s said to be hypotonic this means less than the cell, and the net flow of water will be into the cell.in the reverse case, if the extracellular fluid has a higher osmolarity than the cell’s cytoplasm, it’s said to be hypertonic. Hyper means greater than to the cell, and water will move out of the cell to the region of higher solute concentration. The last term would be isotonic which mean the same extracellular fluid has the same osmolarity as the cell, and there will move out of the cell to the region of higher solute concentration. Hypotonic, hypertonic, and isotonic are relative terms.
That is, they describe how one solution compares to another in terms of osmolarity. For instance, if the fluid inside a cell has higher osmolarity. A good example to prove my point would by are an experiment of how it's hypotonic. As the cell goes into the water the fluid of the water in the beaker will flow into sucrose cell the longer it’s the cell the more water weight it will gain making it a hypotonic