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Practice Osmosis Questions

This document provides a scenario describing an artificial cell containing an aqueous solution of sugars immersed in a beaker containing a different sugar solution. The membrane enclosing the cell is permeable to glucose and fructose but not sucrose. Students are asked to answer four multiple choice questions predicting which solutes will diffuse into or out of the cell, the direction of osmotic water flow, and the effect on the cell's volume. The answers are provided on the instructor's course website.

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Practice Osmosis Questions

This document provides a scenario describing an artificial cell containing an aqueous solution of sugars immersed in a beaker containing a different sugar solution. The membrane enclosing the cell is permeable to glucose and fructose but not sucrose. Students are asked to answer four multiple choice questions predicting which solutes will diffuse into or out of the cell, the direction of osmotic water flow, and the effect on the cell's volume. The answers are provided on the instructor's course website.

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Burr, BIO 2311.

501
Practice osmosis/diffusion questions.

An artificial cell containing an aqueous solution of [0.02 M sucrose, 0.01 M glucose, and 0.06 M fructose]
enclosed in a selectively permeable membrane has just been immersed in a beaker containing a different
aqueous solution [0.05 M sucrose, 0.03 M glucose, 0.01 M fructose]:

Cell Environment (beaker solution)

0.02 M sucrose 0.05 M sucrose


0.01 M glucose 0.03 M glucose
0.06 M fructose 0.01 M fructose

The membrane is permeable to water and to the simple sugars glucose and fructose, but is completely
impermeable to the disaccharide sucrose. Now answer questions 1-4, below.

1. Which solute(s) will exhibit a net diffusion into the cell?

A. Glucose and fructose


B. Glucose and sucrose
C. Fructose
D. Glucose

2. Which solute(s) will exhibit a net diffusion out of the cell?

A. Glucose and fructose


B. Glucose and sucrose
C. Fructose
D. Glucose

3. In which direction will there be a net osmotic movement of water?

A. From the cell into the environment (outside solution).


B. From the environment (outside solution) into the cell.
C. From the top of the beaker to the bottom of the beaker
D. From the bottom of the beaker to the top of the beaker

4. After the cell is placed into the beaker, which of the following changes would occur?

A. The artificial cell would become more flaccid (shriveled; ie, would shrink).
B. The artificial cell would become more turgid (stiff; hard; ie, would expand).
C. The entropy of the system (cell plus surrounding solution) would decrease.
D. The overall free energy stored in the system would increase.

The answers are given on the course web site: http://www.utdallas.edu/~burr/BIO2311/ (follow
link under Exam 1 preparation).

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