Vegetable Introduction Background Information: Osmosis is the passage of water from a region of high water potential to a region of low water potential‚ down a water potential gradient through a semi-permeable membrane. If a plant cell‚ or an item with similar properties is put in water‚ three different things can happen: • If the surrounding area has a higher water potential‚ the cell will increase in mass through osmosis. The cell will become turgid. • If the surrounding
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LabMr.P/Pd. 63/17/14 Osmosis and Diffusion Lab Osmosis is a process where molecules pass through a semi permeable membrane from a less concentrated solution into a more concentrated one‚ equalizing the concentrations on each side of the membrane. Diffusion is the spreading of something more widely.During the osmosis and diffusion lab I tested what happens to a fresh egg when osmosis and diffusion across membranes. The eggs were placed in vinegar‚ distilled water‚ and then lastly syrup. The
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Stacy Hernandez Period 1 Mrs. Riley AP Biology Osmosis and Diffusion Lab I. Introduction: Diffusion is vital to many life functions of a cell‚ it allow the transportation of vitally important nutrients and compounds without the expenditure of excess metabolic energy. To explain diffusion‚ it is as if a bottle of perfume is opened at one end of the room‚ then in a short amount of time a person at the other end of the room can detect the scent of the perfume; this is the process of diffusion
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surface area to volume ratio and solute concentration on osmosis.] | The aim of this experiment was to test the effect of surface area on osmosis and the effect of solute concentration on osmosis. To test this aim to hypotheses were devised. 1) If potato pieces are immersed in various salt solutions‚ then the pieces with the greatest surface area to volume ratio will experience the greatest weight change‚ because more water can move by osmosis across the potato cell’s semi permeable membrane. 2) If
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The effect of Sodium Chloride (NaCl) salt concentration on osmosis in potato cells The movement of substances in plant cells involves many processes and systems‚ all of which may affect the plant bio-chemically and physically‚ and one of these processes is osmosis. Osmosis is the flow of water through a semi-permeable membrane of a cell moving from an area of higher water potential to an area of lower water potential until reaching equilibrium known as isotonic. Before reaching the point of being
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temperature have on the rate of diffusion? How did molecule size affect the rate of diffusion? What happens to the rate of diffusion over time? Why? What can you conclude from this experiment? II. Osmosis Define the following terms. Osmosis EXERCISE 2 – Osmosis demonstration After 15 minutes‚ record the volume change in each tube. Osmometer Dialysis Tube Contents Beaker Contents Volume Fluid Moved Direction of Movement 1 2 Describe the net movement
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Bibliography: Diffusion and osmosis. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/kinetic/diffus.html McGraw-Hill. (2006). How osmosis works. Retrieved from http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0072495855/student_view0/chapter2/animation__how_osmosis_works.html
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BIOLOGY – TRANSPORT ACROSS MEMBRANE define diffusion and describe its role in nutrient uptake and gaseous exchange in plants and humans define osmosis and describe the effects of osmosis on plant and animal tissues define active transport and discuss its importance as an energy-consuming process by which substances are transported against a concentration gradient‚ as in ion uptake by root hairs and uptake of glucose by cells in the villi . A cell is surrounded by a layer of cell surface membrane
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transport in which it does not have need of an active role for the membrane. Osmosis and dialysis are also occasionally called passive transports because they too do not require an active role for the membrane. Osmosis is movement of water across a semipermeable membrane of low concentration to a solution of high concentration. On the other hand diffusion is movement of molecules from a high concentration to a low concentration. Osmosis is a form of diffusion but a distinction would be that it deals essentially
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{Online‚ Biology. “Osmosis.” Osmosis‚ Biology Online‚ 25 Dec. 2016‚ 2:27‚ www.biology-online.org/dictionary/Osmosis.} This means that water will flow through the naked egg’s outer membrane from the outside to the inside. This is because inside the egg has a lower concentration of water than outside the egg. Since osmosis is based around mainly water and substances with extremely low acidity‚ we decided to use plain water
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