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Why does the presence of dissolved particles on one side of a membrane ressults in diffusion of wager across the memebrane?
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∙ 9y ago
Addition of a polar solute lowers the water potential on that side of the membrane and so water will diffuse from the other side of the membrane from a relatively high water potential to the lower water potential, by osmosis.
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∙ 11y ago
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∙ 12y agoWhen one area has a higher concentration than another area substances move from the area of high concentration to the area of low concentration.
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What is the process of dissolved food passing through a cell membrane?
Diffusion
What motion of particles across a membrane requires energy?
Movement across a membrane that does require energy is called active transport.
What is it called when particles travel from an area of high concentration to an aera of low concentration?
Through passive transport
What is the process by which tiny particles can pass through the cell membrane?
Small particles can pass through the cell membrane by simple diffusion. If the particles are water, the process is given a special name: osmosis.
How do cells use the process of osmosis and diffusion to take in nutrients and to get rid of wastes?
== == Diffusion is: the movement of particles from regions of higher concentration to regions of lower concentration. Osmosis is: the diffusion of water through a semipermeable membrane.
What is the name for the diffusion of dissolved particles?
Selective permeability by the cell membrane-Ben
Why do dissolved particles on one side of the membrane result in the diffusion of water across the membrane?
Dissolved particles on one side of the membrane results in the diffusion of water across the membrane due to the need to have the same solution concentration on both sides of the membrane. Water will diffuse from a hypotonic solution to a hypertonic solution.
What is the process of dissolved food passing through a cell membrane?
Diffusion
Why do dissolved particles on one side of a membrane result in the diffusion of water across the membrane?
When one area has a higher concentration than another area substances move from the area of high concentration to the area of low concentration.
Diffusion is the movement of a sustance?
Diffusion is the movement of particles in a substance through a semi permeable membrane. Osmosis is similar but only involves water particles passing through a semi permeable membrane.
What motion of particles across a membrane requires energy?
Movement across a membrane that does require energy is called active transport.
What is it called when particles travel from an area of high concentration to an aera of low concentration?
Through passive transport
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.
What is the process by which tiny particles can pass through the cell membrane?
Small particles can pass through the cell membrane by simple diffusion. If the particles are water, the process is given a special name: osmosis.
Particles moving across a cell membrane without using energy?
Diffusion and Osmosis
How do cells use the process of osmosis and diffusion to take in nutrients and to get rid of wastes?
== == Diffusion is: the movement of particles from regions of higher concentration to regions of lower concentration. Osmosis is: the diffusion of water through a semipermeable membrane.
What structure allow small particles to cross cell membrane?
Osmosis.
