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The process by which H2O diffuses across a membrane?
Water diffuses across a membrane through a process called osmosis. Osmosis is the movement of water molecules from an area of high concentration to an area of low concentration, down its concentration gradient. This process helps to maintain the balance of water and solute concentrations on both sides of the membrane.
What is the process of water diffusing across a what membrane?
Water diffuses across a cell membrane through a process called osmosis. Osmosis is the movement of water molecules from an area of high water concentration to an area of lower water concentration, driven by the concentration gradient of solutes across the membrane. This process helps maintain the cell's internal environment and balance the concentration of solutes inside and outside the cell.
What is the transport of water across the cell membrane called?
Movement of water across a membrane is called OSMOSIS.
What is the process in which water diffuses through a selectively permeable membrane is called?
The process in which water diffuses through a selectively permeable membrane is called osmosis. Osmosis occurs when water molecules move from an area of higher water concentration to an area of lower water concentration to balance out solute concentrations on either side of the membrane.
The diffusion of water across a semipermeable membrane is called?
When water diffuses through a semipermeable membrane, such as a cell, it is called osmosis. In osmosis the concentration of water will differ on one side of the membrane from that of the other side. Water molecules will tend to diffuse from the high concentration side to the lower.
How is water transported across the membrane?
Water is transported by a passive transport called osmosis. Osmosis is diffusion of water across the membrane.
What is the process in which water diffuses through a cell?
The process through which water diffuses through a cell is called osmosis. Water moves from an area of low solute concentration to an area of high solute concentration, across a semi-permeable membrane, in order to equalize the solute concentrations on both sides of the membrane.
When water diffuse across a membrane how does it diffuse?
Diffuses when water is needed inside of the cell. It usually happens by a hyper-tonic or hypo-tonic solution. Wherever there is a high and low.. water diffuses. Water usually diffuses high to low. Water or any substance that has the ability to diffuse always diffuses from a high concentration to a low concentration. Through a cell memrane, it's the same thing. When we drink water, we gulp down a whole mouthfull. When it's time for it to diffuse, it goes into different cells. We drink in a high c. and the water goes in the cells in low concentration. Same thing when the water wants to come out. It goes to another place that needs it.
How do unicellular get water?
Water diffuses across their cell membranes
What is istotonic?
We generally use the term "tonic" when referring to the effects of osmosis across a real biological membrane. Osmosis is the movement of water across a membrane. We usually have osmosis when the concentration of solutes on each side of the membrane are different so water diffuses from the side with lower solute concentration to the side with higher concentration and this usually continues until we have equilibrium and no more water diffuses across. This environment is called an isotonic environment. ("iso" is Greek for similar or equal)
How mammals get water into their cells?
Water diffuses freely across the plasmalemma.
What is the process in which water diffuses across the cell membrane of an animal cell membrane of an animal cell from a region concentration to a region of low concentration?
Osmosisdiffusion deals with anything moving from high to low concentrations while osmosis is specifically water
