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What the diffusion of water across a cell's membrane?
The diffusion of water through a cell membrane is called osmosis.
What is the name of the diffusion of water?
Osmosis. Osmosis is not the same as diffusion of water. Diffusion of water is just diffusion like with any other substance: the particles spreading, making a homogeneous distribution. Osmosis involves a semipermeabel membrane, where water goes from low solvent concentration to high solvent concentration.
How do ions pass through the membrane?
Osmosis and diffusion
The diffusion of water through a semipermeable membrane is?
Osmosis...
What types of transport mechanisms through the cell membrane are passive?
diffusion, facilitated diffusion, and osmosis
What is the relationship between osmosis and diffusion by definition what is the only substance that can carry out osmosis?
Osmosis is a specific type of diffusion that involves the movement of water across a selectively permeable membrane from an area of higher water concentration to an area of lower water concentration. Water is the only substance that carries out osmosis due to its ability to move freely through the membrane.
What is the diffusion of water through the cell membrane is called?
The diffusion of water through the cell membrane is called osmosis. Osmosis occurs when water molecules move across a semi-permeable membrane from an area of lower solute concentration to an area of higher solute concentration in order to equalize the concentration on both sides of the membrane.
Osmosis is the diffusion of what subtance through a cell membrane?
Water.
What are the types of movement through a membrane?
Osmosis, diffusion, facilitated diffusion, active transport
What is the diffusion of water through a cell membrane known as?
The diffusion of water through a cell membrane is known as osmosis. In osmosis, water molecules move from an area of higher concentration to an area of lower concentration to balance the concentration of solutes on both sides of the membrane.
What is the difference of osmosis and diffusion?
Osmosis is the movement of water molecules across a semipermeable membrane from an area of low solute concentration to an area of high solute concentration. Diffusion is the movement of particles from an area of high concentration to an area of low concentration. Osmosis specifically involves the movement of water molecules, while diffusion can involve any type of molecule.
What is simple diffusion of water through a membrane called?
Osmosis is the term for the diffusion of solute through a membrane from a place of higher concentration to a place of lower concentration. The process of osmosis will continue until the concentration is equal on both sides of the membrane.
