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Lab Report Introduction Tanat Sangwong 5961121: Osmosis

This lab report introduction discusses osmosis, a type of passive transport. Osmosis is the movement of water molecules from an area of high water concentration to low water concentration through a partially permeable membrane. The experiment will test osmosis by soaking jelly and potato in solutions of different concentrations and measuring changes in their mass, volume, and size before and after soaking. The results will help explain the functions and mechanisms of osmosis.

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Lab Report Introduction Tanat Sangwong 5961121: Osmosis

This lab report introduction discusses osmosis, a type of passive transport. Osmosis is the movement of water molecules from an area of high water concentration to low water concentration through a partially permeable membrane. The experiment will test osmosis by soaking jelly and potato in solutions of different concentrations and measuring changes in their mass, volume, and size before and after soaking. The results will help explain the functions and mechanisms of osmosis.

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Lab Report Introduction Tanat Sangwong 5961121

Osmosis

The membrane transportation is the way that the substances can pass through the
phospholipid bilayer. So the molecules that can pass directly through phospholipid bilayer are both
the small and non polar substances. Also, the small and polar substances can be able to pass through
the bilayer but it will pass slowly. The molecules that can not pass through are both large and ions
substances. The membrane transportation has two types, which are passive transportation and active
transportation. The passive transportation can be divided into three main transportation, which are
diffusion or simple diffusion, facilitated diffusion and osmosis. The diffusion is the Active
transportation can divide into two main transportation, which are sodium potassium pump and bulk
transport. But in this document, we will mainly focus in osmosis, which is in the passive
transportation. According to Yvonne (2016), diffusion is the movement of solute from an area of
high concentration to an area of low concentration, but osmosis is the movement of water from a
high concentration to a low concentration through a partially permeable membrane. It is a special
type of diffusion. The different between osmosis and other passive transportation is that osmosis is a
movement of water across the membrane from high to low concentration of water or the water will
move to the side that have more solute comparing with another side. The water or solution that have
more solute or concentration is called hypertonic solution, and the solution that have less solute is
called hypotonic solution. According to Amy (2016), Diffusion and osmosis do not require energy
because it is passive transportation, which the water will move from high to low concentration
gradient. Imagine the concentration is a hill. If you put something on the slope, it does not require
energy from anyone to push it down. However, if you wanted to take something up the slope, it
would. So osmosis does not need energy to do its function. For example, if the cell is put into high
solute water or hypertonic solution, then the water from the cell will slightly move out to outside of
the cell, and the cell will shrink.
So in this experiment, we test the experiment by soaking the jelly and the potato into the
different concentration of water, which are the hypotonic and hypertonic solution. The control
variable are the potato and jelly that were put in the empty glasses of beaker. The mass, volume, and
size will be calculated to see the differences between before and after they were put into the
solutions. The experiment will be linked to this chapter by using the information of osmosis in order
to find the result of the experiment, and get the correct answer due to the osmosis functions.

The references

- Yvonne (2016, August 3) What is osmosis? [It is a type of diffusion, where only the solvent
moves across a semi-permeable membrane ]
https://www.mytutor.co.uk/answers/5643/GCSE/Biology/What+is+osmosis%253F

- Amy (2016, July 4) What is the difference between diffusion, osmosis and active transport?
[Osmosis is the movement of water down a concentration gradient (from high to low
https://www.mytutor.co.uk/answers/5216/GCSE/Biology/What+is+the+difference+between
concentration) across a partially permeable membrane. Once again, this is a passive process and
+diffusion%252C+osmosis+and+active+transport%253F
no energy is required.]

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