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Unit 1: Principles of Cellular Life Chapter 5: Ground Rules of Metabolism 5.8: Which Way Will Water Move?

Water will diffuse across a selectively permeable membrane from an area of higher water concentration to lower water concentration via osmosis. The document defines tonicity as the relative concentration of solutes between two fluids separated by a membrane, with hypotonic referring to lower concentration, hypertonic referring to higher concentration, and isotonic referring to equal concentration. Fluid pressure, including hydrostatic pressure and osmotic pressure, can counteract the effects of osmosis.

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Unit 1: Principles of Cellular Life Chapter 5: Ground Rules of Metabolism 5.8: Which Way Will Water Move?

Water will diffuse across a selectively permeable membrane from an area of higher water concentration to lower water concentration via osmosis. The document defines tonicity as the relative concentration of solutes between two fluids separated by a membrane, with hypotonic referring to lower concentration, hypertonic referring to higher concentration, and isotonic referring to equal concentration. Fluid pressure, including hydrostatic pressure and osmotic pressure, can counteract the effects of osmosis.

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Amit Manjunath

Unit 1: principles of cellular life


Chapter 5: Ground Rules of Metabolism
5.8: Which Way Will Water Move
Movement of Water
-Osmosis is the name for when water molecules diffuse across a selectively permeable
membrane in response to their concentration gradient.
-If there is just water the concentration of it will not change. !owever if and when it is
mi"ed with a solute as more molecules of the solution is mi"ed with water the lower the
concentration of water will go.
#ffects of tonicity
-$onicity refers to the relative concentrations of solutes in two fluids that are separated by
a semipermeable membrane.
-If the concentrations differ the one with the lower concentration is called the hypotonic
fluid.
-$he one with the higher concentration is called the hypertonic fluid.
-Isotonic fluids have the same concentration.
#ffects of %luid &ressure
-!ydrostatic pressure or turgor often counters osmosis. $hey are the pressures that a
volume of fluid e"erts against a cell wall membrane tube or any other structure that
holds it.
-Osmotic pressure is the pressure that can stop water from diffusing into cytoplasmic
fluid or other hypertonic solutions.

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