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Why does a plant cell lose water by osmosis when put in a concentrated solution?
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Not just plant cells, all cells with semi-permeable membranes loose water when placed in a more highly concentrated solution.
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Is water and sugar a concentrated solution?
No solution is concentrated when there is water in it
Is the tendency of water to move from an area of higher water concentration to one of lower water concentration.?
osmosis. The water moves down an osmotic gradient from a dilute solution of ions to a move concentrated solution through a partially permiable membrane.
What is more concentrated solution the plant cell sap or the water in the cell?
The cell sap contains all the water in the cell in animals... In plants the vacuole is less concentrated than the cytosol.
What will happen to an animal cell if placed in a concentrated solution?
when an animal cell is placed in a concentrated or diloute solution, it soakes up the water but because animal cell do not have cell walls like plant cells they will eventually burst.
Water moves out of a cell if the cell is placed in a solution?
Hypertonic solution. To further elaborate my point, hypertonic solution is a solution which has less water potential and more solutes as compared to inside the cell. Osmosis is the movement of water from a region of high water potential to low water potential through a partially permeable membrane. Therefore, water leaves the cell into the solution. Hope this helps!!:)
What word is used to define when water moves from a dilute solution to a concentrated solution?
Osmosis
What is the diffusion of water from a more dilute solution to a more concentrated solution through a membrane?
It is called osmosis.
Is osmosis active or passive transport?
It is passive transport because the water flows from a more highly concentrated solution to a less concentrated solution.
What is a process of osmosis?
Osmosis is the diffusion of water or another solvent from a more dilute solution (of a solute) to a more concentrated solution (of the solute) through a membrane that is permeable to the solvent.
What is the diffusion of water from a more dilute solution to a more concentrated soultion through a membrane?
osmosis
Osmosis is a type of what process?
Osmosis is the diffusion of water or another solvent from a more dilute solution (of a solute) to a more concentrated solution (of the solute) through a membrane that is permeable to the solvent.
What is the diffusion of water of another solvent from a more dilute solution to a more concentrated solution through a membrane that is permeable to the solvent?
OSMOSIS
A semipermeable membrane has a 4 percent salt solution on the right side and a 12 percent salt solution on the left side what will most likely occur-?
Osmosis of water from the right to the left
Do animal cell and plant cell get bigger in distilled water?
If animal cells are placed in distilled water they will absorb water by the process called osmosis. This will make the cell swell and, if it doen not stop, eventually burst. Plant cells placed in distilled water will also absorb water by osmosis but the cell wall prevents them from swelling. Water enters the cells by osmosis because the concentration of the solution inside the cells is higher than that of the 'solution' outside. Water always moves by osmosis from a dilute solution to a concentrated solution (when they are separated by a membrane which lets water through but not dissolved substances). For a good introduction to osmosis see: http://www.chaosscience.org.uk/pub/public_html//article.php?story=20050301222247333
What controls the direction of water movement during osmosis?
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, osmosis is defined as "a process by which molecules of a solvent tend to pass through a semipermeable membrane from a less concentrated solution into a more concentrated one" (OED 2013). The greater mass present in the higher concentrated solution of the solvent causes the water molecule to pass through the sempermeable membrane until the water concentration of water with concentrated solution are balanced on both sides.
What is the tendency of a solvent to move through a thin porous membrane from a dilute solution to a more concentrated solution?
If the solvent is water, it would be osmosis.
Why does a plant in a strong salty solution die?
Because the plant loses water through osmosis. osmosis is the movement of fluids from an area of high water concentration (there are lots of water molecules) to an area of low water concentration (there are fewer water molecules). this means that because there is more water in the plant than in the solution the plant will lose its water into the solution via osmosis. the plant now has much less water than it needs to survive so will die in the same manner as a plant which has not been watered.
