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Diffusion is the spreading of something more widely. While osmosis is when molecules pass through a semi-permeable membrane into a more concentrated solution.

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What is the opposite of osmosis?

The opposite of osmosis is dialysis, which involves removing waste and excess substances from the blood by passing it through a membrane. In dialysis, solutes move from an area of high concentration to low concentration rather than water moving through a semi-permeable membrane like in osmosis.


How is osmosis different than diffusion?

Osmosis is the same thing as diffusion, but occuring only with liquids in a selectively permeable membrane. An example of this is that water entering your cells is osmosis, but oxygen entering is diffusion.


Defusion and osmosis?

Diffusion is when there is lower concentration in one area than another so the particles that are in the area with higher concentration move to the area with lower concentration to make the concentration same in both areas. Osmosis is a type of diffusion but diffusion that only has water involved. So if there's no water... it's not osmosis. It's gotta be diffusion.


What is the difference between diffusion and osmosi s?

Osmosis is the movement of a solvent (water) into a cell where the concentration of a solute is higher, the lower concentration of solute being outside the root cells. Diffusion involves the spreading of a solute from areas of higher concentrations to areas of lower concentration within a solvent.Osmosis is made possible by a semi-permeable membrane which allows the solvent in, instead of allowing the solute out.


Process of osmosis with grams?

Osmosis is the movement of solvent molecules from an area of lower solute concentration to an area of higher solute concentration through a semi-permeable membrane. The movement of grams of solute is not directly related to osmosis, as osmosis is driven by the concentration gradient of solute particles rather than the mass of the solute. The mass of solute does affect the osmotic pressure, which is a colligative property related to the concentration of solute particles in a solution.

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What process - movement of water across a selectively permeable membrane from an area of high water concentration to an area of low concentration?

Osmosis is the process by which water moves across a selectively permeable membrane.


Osmosis is a special form of?

Osmosis is a special form of diffusion in that it brings water into a cell, rather than nutrients & other substances.


What is the opposite of osmosis?

The opposite of osmosis is dialysis, which involves removing waste and excess substances from the blood by passing it through a membrane. In dialysis, solutes move from an area of high concentration to low concentration rather than water moving through a semi-permeable membrane like in osmosis.


What is the process of water moving from an area of low salute concentration to an area of high solute concentration?

Water does flow to a region of more concentrated solute, by the process of osmosis.


Movement of water rather than a solute through a cell membrane is called?

The movement of water rather than a solute through a cell membrane is called osmosis. Osmosis is the process by which water molecules move across a semi-permeable membrane from an area of higher water concentration to an area of lower water concentration.


How is osmosis different than diffusion?

Osmosis is the same thing as diffusion, but occuring only with liquids in a selectively permeable membrane. An example of this is that water entering your cells is osmosis, but oxygen entering is diffusion.


How diffusion and osmosis limit the size of a cell?

becauuse it does


Defusion and osmosis?

Diffusion is when there is lower concentration in one area than another so the particles that are in the area with higher concentration move to the area with lower concentration to make the concentration same in both areas. Osmosis is a type of diffusion but diffusion that only has water involved. So if there's no water... it's not osmosis. It's gotta be diffusion.


What is the difference between diffusion and osmosi s?

Osmosis is the movement of a solvent (water) into a cell where the concentration of a solute is higher, the lower concentration of solute being outside the root cells. Diffusion involves the spreading of a solute from areas of higher concentrations to areas of lower concentration within a solvent.Osmosis is made possible by a semi-permeable membrane which allows the solvent in, instead of allowing the solute out.


How does water enter or leave the uni cellular organism by diffusion or osmosis?

In unicellular organisms, water enters the cell through the process of osmosis, which is the movement of water across a selectively permeable membrane from an area of higher water concentration to an area of lower water concentration. This helps maintain the cell's internal hydration levels. Similarly, water can also leave the cell through osmosis if the external environment has a lower concentration of water than inside the cell.


Do large cells and small cell carry out diffusion and osmosis at rate?

Yes, large cells and small cells both carry out diffusion and osmosis, but the rates can differ. Smaller cells generally have a higher surface area-to-volume ratio, allowing for more efficient and faster diffusion and osmosis compared to larger cells. As cells increase in size, the volume grows faster than the surface area, which can slow down these processes. Therefore, smaller cells typically exchange materials more rapidly than larger cells.


Osmosis is more or less specialized then diffusion because it involves?

Osmosis is more specialized than diffusion because it specifically refers to the movement of water molecules across a selectively permeable membrane, from an area of lower solute concentration to an area of higher solute concentration. Diffusion, on the other hand, is a broader term that describes the movement of any type of molecule from an area of higher concentration to an area of lower concentration.