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Particles always move from an area of high concentration to an area of low concentration. Therefore, if the concentration of dissolved substances is greater outside the cell, they will travel into the cell until there is an equal concentration of the substance on both sides of the cell wall.

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What is a special form of diffusion where water moves from an area of high water concentration to an area of low water concentration?

This is not special at all, it is what happens normally. You can also think of it as water moving down a solute gradient (from low solute concentration to high solute concentration, till the concentrations are the same. The name for this process is osmosis.


How did those substance go into the water outside the dialysis bag?

The substance moved into the water through osmosis. The concentration of the substances inside the dialysis bag was higher than in the water and membrane was permeable to the substances. As such, they moved from a high to a low concentration along a concentration gradient.


What are Characteristics of carrier mediated transport?

Cell mediated transports depends of sterospecificity, saturation, and competition


The movement of substances across the cell membrane that requires the cell to use energy?

It's called active transport. When talking about the cell, it is usually bigger substances that use passages in the cell membrane to access the inner part of the cell, and they need energy to get there. The opposite; passive transport or diffusion, is the movement of dissolved materials through a cell membrane without the use of cellular energy. THis happens with smaller substances.


What is the relationship between concentration levels and the rate of osmosis?

Yes. The rate of osmosis is determined by several factors, including heat, molecule size, and concentration gradient. The concentration gradient is essentially the difference between the concentration within part of the system to that concentration in the rest of the system. So, the hotter the water (solution)/the smaller the molecules/the greater the concentration difference, the greater (faster) the rate of osmosis. (Source: today's biology lecure at a state university, as well as several college websites.)

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What happens when the concentration of dissolved substances is in the same in both the cell and the solution in which it is placed?

Isotonic solution


What happens to the freezing points as the ethanol concentration increased?

The answer depends on the substances in the mixture in which the ethanol concentration increases.


What happens to a higher concentration of dissolved molecules on one side of a cell membrrane during the process of diffusion?

The higher concentration begins to diffuse into the area with lower concentration.


What happens to water vapor concentration when carbon dioxide increases?

Co2 is a acidic gas. water turn acidic when CO2 dissolved.


Does the result of diffusion make the concentration always remain greater inside the membrane?

no it does not make it greater nor fewer inside the cell membrane it's because difussion keeps on going till equilibrium happens. moreover the process difussion allows solutes to be transferred from the more concentration to the less concentration like what happens in glucose between a cell and blood. :)


What to happens to breathing rate during jumping jacks?

Increases due to greater oxygen demands and a rising blood CO2 concentration (PCO2).


Why water is netural in pH scale?

pH is the negative logarithm of the molar concentration of dissolved hydronium ions. a low pH indicates a high concentration of hydronium ions, while a high pH indicates a low concentration. water happens to be very close to 7.0 so it is considered neutral


What happens to a higher concentration of dissolved molecules on one side of a cell membrane during the process of diffusion?

the side of the cell membrane with the higher molecule concentration moves molecules to areas of lower concentration during diffusion until an equilibrium is reached between both sides of the membrane.


What happens to solute?

A solute is dissolved in a solvent.


What happens to concentration of the sugar solution as the water is removed?

Concentration increases


What happens to the antibody concentration after the second exposure?

The concentration of the antibodies skyrockets


What happens if too much calcium is dissolved?

it will overflow