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osmosis. The water moves from an area of high water potential to that of low water potential. Water potential of pure H2O is 0, the potential goes down the more it is contaminated by other substances.

Therefore it is always negative and the water moves to the more negative side of the selectivly permiable membrane. (in this case the cell surface membrane.)

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What happens when the concentration of water molecules is greater outside a cell than inside?

There will be a net movement of water out of the cell, the cell will become shrunken. Water will move from an area of high water concentration to an area of low water concentration.


How water molucleus move through the cell membrane doing out mosis?

Water molecules move through the cell membrane via osmosis, a passive process where water flows from an area of low solute concentration to an area of high solute concentration. This movement occurs through special proteins called aquaporins that facilitate the transport of water across the membrane. The process helps maintain the balance of water inside and outside the cell.


Predict what might happen to an animal cell if you put it in distilled water?

The animal cell will swell and potentially burst due to water entering the cell through osmosis. The distilled water has a higher water concentration than inside the cell, causing water to move into the cell to try to equalize the concentration.


An animal cell that surrounded by fresh water will burst because osmosis causes?

water to move into the cell, causing the cell to swell and eventually burst due to the influx of water.


Water molecules spreading through a membrane with a change in cell size is an example of?

Osmosis. Osmosis is the process where water molecules move from an area of high water concentration to an area of low water concentration through a selectively permeable membrane, such as a cell membrane.

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Describe the water molecules move through the cell membrane during osmosis?

Describe how water molecules move through the cell membrane during osmosis?


The compound that allows materials to move through cell membranes by osmosis is?

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How do water molecules move through the cell membrane during omosis?

With a specific channel protein called aquaporins.


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What compound allows materials to move through cell membranes by osmosis?

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What happens when the concentration of water molecules is greater outside a cell than inside?

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What substance enters and leaves a plant cell through the process of osmosis?

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How cell to cell movement of water takes place in plants?

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How water molucleus move through the cell membrane doing out mosis?

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Why cant they hydrogen and electrons move through the cell on their own?

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Water molecules move into cell by diffusion?

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