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What is the role of osmosis?

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It gives the plant water

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What describes the role of osmosis in cells?

The cell membrane is selectively permeable which allows for movement (exchanges) through it always from the side of higher concentration moving over to the side of lower concentration. This defines the movement osmosis. The role of osmosis is to maintain equilibrium between inside and outside the cell. Sudden, large shifts via osmosis can indicate illness or a response to severe injury.


Why do they call it osmosis?

Osmosis was first discovered by Jean Antoine Nollet in 1748. Osmosis plays an important role in biological and chemical science. Everyone can see the example of osmosis in normal life just like when you deep sponge into the water so water goes into the sponge and makes the sponge expand reason is osmosis. Osmosis comes from the words within and push.


What process is the diffusion of water through a selectively permeable membrane?

This is the process of osmosis. The membrane allows a solvent (usually water) to move from an area with lower solute concentration to one with greater concentration.


Osmosis?

Osmosis is


How do you spell osmosis?

Really? osmosis.


Are earthworms diffusion or osmosis?

osmosis


Is there antonyms for osmosis?

there is no antonym for osmosis.


Where does osmosis occur?

osmosis occurs in the roots


Is excretory system osmosis or diffusion?

osmosis


What are 2 examples of osmosis?

Osmosis in plant cells. (water moves into plant cells by osmosis). Osmosis in animal cells. (water also diffuses in and out of animal cells by osmosis). Hope this answers your question.


How do osmosis and villi play a role in feeding cells the glucose they need?

Osmosis occurs in the small intestines which contain the villi. There are blood vessels connected to the villi so nutrients/glucose in the small intestines diffuses through the semi-permeable membrane of the cells in the blood vessel.


What uses oxygen to break down food?

What would most likely be using oxygen to break down food would be the cells in humans and other animals in a process called "osmosis" and respiration plays a role in this as well.