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What term do scientists use to describe the cell membrane about diffusion and osmosis?
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What is the diffusion of water through the cell membrane is called?
Facilitated Diffusion
What types of transport mechanisms through the cell membrane are passive?
diffusion, facilitated diffusion, and osmosis
Can osmosis occur in the absence of menbrane?
Osmosis is a type of diffusion that occurs with a semi permeable membrane. It can therefore not occur without a membrane because that is what differentiates it from diffusion.
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.
Which organelle is involved in osmosis and diffusion?
plasma membrane
How do you describe osmosis?
A special type of diffusion through a membrane
Why do scientists use two separate terms to describe diffusion and osmosis?
Diffusion describes dispersion of a contaminant through a bulk fluid. Osmosis describes dispersion of a contaminant through a membrane or divider of some sort.
How do osmosis differ from diffusion?
osmosis is diffusion through a membrane
What the diffusion of water across a cell's membrane?
The diffusion of water through a cell membrane is called osmosis.
How do diffusion and osmosis differ from one another?
Diffusion and osmosis differ because diffusion is the process by which molecules spread out, or move from areas with high concentration to low concentration, and osmosis is the diffusion of water. Osmosis is a type of diffusion relating to water. It is usually used to describe the diffusion of water across a membrane (such as the cell membrane). Osmosis is also defined as the flow of solvent from a region of higher pressure toward a region of low pressure.
What is the diffusion of water through the cell membrane is called?
Facilitated Diffusion
Diffusion of solvent particles across a semipermeable membrane?
Osmosis is the diffusion of water through a semi-permeable membrane, such as that surrounding a cell. Semipermeable indicates that the membrane will allow certain thing to pass through it while preventing others.
Explain the differences among diffusion facilitated diffusion and osmosis?
osmosis is the movement of water across the plasma or cell membrane
5 differences between diffusion and osmosis?
The differences between diffusion and osmosis are really just that osmosis takes place with water and through a membrane. Diffusion is just the spread of molecules from high concentration to low. Osmosis is diffusion of water through a membrane.
What types of transport mechanisms through the cell membrane are passive?
diffusion, facilitated diffusion, and osmosis
What is relationship between osmosis and diffusion?
The relationship is that osmosis is the diffusion of water throught a selective permeable membrane.
Can osmosis occur in the absence of menbrane?
Osmosis is a type of diffusion that occurs with a semi permeable membrane. It can therefore not occur without a membrane because that is what differentiates it from diffusion.
