The Role Of Osmosis In Living Organisms

Osmosis is the selective diffusion of water and other molecules across membranes, which in the case of living organisms, the solvent (water) would have net movement across a selective permeable membrane. Osmosis only occurs when a membrane such as that of a cell is permeable to water molecules but not to specific solutes (Tortora & Derrickson 2014). Certain simple molecules such as oxygen, water and carbon dioxide can travel across the cell membrane by osmosis, a passive process similar to other forms of diffusion (Hill 2007). Not merely is it vital to several processes in living organisms, it also leads the movement of molecules amid other tissues and blood. The process of osmosis occurs in In osmosis, solvents move across the cell membrane