Using Sucrose Solutions to Determine Osmolarity of Potato Tubers Based on Weight By Thomas Pelikan Biology 200A Section 004 Kimberly Schmidt October 2‚ 2012 Abstract: In this experiment we were trying to determine the osmolarity of potato tubers by weighing them before and after incubating them in solutions of sucrose with varying molarities. To find the osmolarity we took a potato and used a cork borer to obtain seven samples of potato tubers. We then prepared seven beakers with concentrations
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Review Sheet 1 Results 1. Describe two variables that affect the rate of diffusion. Your answer: Two variables that affect the rate of diffusion are the MWCO membrane and the solute concentration. Increasing the membrane size and solute concentration will also increase the average diffusion rate. Decreasing the membrane size and solute concentration will reduce diffusion rates and can even prevent all diffusion. 2. Why do you think the urea was not able to diffuse through the 20 MWCO membrane
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Solution A homogeneous mixture of two or more substances with each substance retaining its own chemical identity. Solute – substance being dissolved. Solvent – liquid water. General Properties of a Solution 1. Contains 2 or more components. 2. Has variable composition. 3. Properties change as the ratio of solute to solvent is changed. 4. Dissolved solutes are present as individual particles. 5. Solutes remain uniformly distributed and will not settle out with time. 6. Solute
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Aim The aim is to find the concentration (mole/dm3 (M)) of solute in a potato cell by using the process of osmosis and different concentrations of sucrose solution. Background information Osmosis is diffusion of water across a partially permeable membrane. It moves from a solution with less solute concentration (high water potential) to a solution with more solute concentration (low water potential). The one with a high water concentration is called a hypotonic solution and the low water concentration
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Introduction The purpose of this lab is to find out which osmotic environment the eggs are in while sitting in different liquids. There are three different types of environments: hypotonic‚ isotonic‚ and hypertonic. Hypotonic solution causes the cell to swell until it bursts. Hypertonic solution causes the cell to shrink or to lose weight. Isotonic solution doesn’t cause the egg to shrink or swell‚ it keeps the cell the same it’s just in a different environment. The hypothesis for the egg in
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down sucrose is too large of a molecule to diffuse through semi permeable membrane and wouldn’t be able move in and out of cells affectively. Because potatoes have sucrose inside them a concentration gradient is present and if placed in any solution osmosis movement of water through semi permeable membranes would naturally occur. If the concentration of sucrose in the solutions is less than the concentration in the potato then the potato will gain mass and vice versa. In conducting this experiment sucrose
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Education 28: 83 – 85. Bland‚ W. and C. B. Tanner (1985) Measurement of the water potential of stored potato tubers. Plant Physiology 79: 891-895. Boyer‚ JS (1969) Measurement of the water status of plants. ARPP 20:351-364. Koning‚ R (1999) Web Site: Osmosis Lab. Kramer‚ P (1983) Water Relations of Plants. Academic Press‚ NY. Meidner‚ H (1984) Class Experiments in Plant Physiology. George Albert Unwin‚ Boston. Reiss‚ Carol (1994) Experiments in Plant Physiology. Prentice-Hall‚ Englewood Cliffs‚ NJ. Ross
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Introduction In this Lab the students dealt with Osmosis‚ movement of water molecule or solvent from a high concentration to a low concentration‚ through selective permeability‚ a protective barrier that provide some particle the ’direct ’ passage in and out of the plasma membrane ( Lacerda L.2011) Allowing some molecules enter and exit the cell membrane‚ to create a balance in concentration inside and outside of the cell‚ by doing so the cell often become hypotonic‚ where the concentration
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perhaps the single most important molecule in any living system (Hayden and McNeil 2012). Since water molecules are so small‚ they are constantly going into and out of the cell. Osmosis is a situation where more water molecules are moving across the membrane in one direction than the other (Hayden and McNeil 2012). During osmosis the net movement of water molecules will be from a solution that has a lower osmotic concentration to a solution that has a higher osmotic concentration. When a solution has
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PLASMA MEMBRANE SELECTIVE PERMEABILITY= allowing some substance to cross it more easily than others composed of: Phospholipids Proteins Carbohydrates Cholesterol FLUID MOSAIC MODEL Phospholipids are primary lipids(constantly moving‚ fluidly) AMPHIPATHIC-containing hydrophobic and hydrophilic regions Mosaic part=not made of one thing Freeze-fracture studies:way to view what’s inside FLUIDITY OF MEMBRANE Move within bilayer Most of lipids and some proteins‚ drift laterally
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