Lab 4: Osmotic regulation of cell volume
The eukaryotic organism requires homeostasis to maintain daily activities and life. Zooming into smaller units to make up an organism, cells also require homeostasis in order for the organisms to function. Understanding the different balance cells need to maintain will aid us in understanding how cells in organisms successfully maintain osmo-regulations. Eukaryotic cells have selective permeable membrane giving them the unique function of regulating specific molecules between the intracellular and extracellular environment. This experiment will help researchers understand how cell maintain its’ cellular regulations. For this reason, the specific cell chosen to further understand the osmotic regulation …show more content…
The role of red blood cell is to transport gas and ions to all other cells in the body (Body Systems and Homeostasis; Diez-Silva). Individual cells also need to maintain a specific structure in an environment to function properly. Therefore they must maintain a balance between the amount of gas like oxygen, liquid such as water, and solid ions to maintain homeostasis. According to the Oxford dictionary, homeostasis is the equilibrium maintenance of interdependent elements of physiological processes. To observe homeostasis, we would look into osmolarity. Osmolarity is a concentration measurement of particles using milliosmoles per liter (mOsm/L). The difference between molarity and osmolarity is that osmolarity takes pressures into account. Osmolarity only calculate the amount of particles difference between the intracellular membrane and the extracellular of the membrane. The …show more content…
From the second part of the example, cell burst is a possible situation can occur to the cell. In this experiment, cell burst, more specifically hemolysis, red blood cell death, lead organelles to spread in the solution and block the absorbance of light in the colorimeter. By comparison of the measured osmolarity and hemolysis between the different solutions provided the data to understand, how a red blood cell react in different osmolarity to maintain
The eukaryotic organism requires homeostasis to maintain daily activities and life. Zooming into smaller units to make up an organism, cells also require homeostasis in order for the organisms to function. Understanding the different balance cells need to maintain will aid us in understanding how cells in organisms successfully maintain osmo-regulations. Eukaryotic cells have selective permeable membrane giving them the unique function of regulating specific molecules between the intracellular and extracellular environment. This experiment will help researchers understand how cell maintain its’ cellular regulations. For this reason, the specific cell chosen to further understand the osmotic regulation …show more content…
The role of red blood cell is to transport gas and ions to all other cells in the body (Body Systems and Homeostasis; Diez-Silva). Individual cells also need to maintain a specific structure in an environment to function properly. Therefore they must maintain a balance between the amount of gas like oxygen, liquid such as water, and solid ions to maintain homeostasis. According to the Oxford dictionary, homeostasis is the equilibrium maintenance of interdependent elements of physiological processes. To observe homeostasis, we would look into osmolarity. Osmolarity is a concentration measurement of particles using milliosmoles per liter (mOsm/L). The difference between molarity and osmolarity is that osmolarity takes pressures into account. Osmolarity only calculate the amount of particles difference between the intracellular membrane and the extracellular of the membrane. The …show more content…
From the second part of the example, cell burst is a possible situation can occur to the cell. In this experiment, cell burst, more specifically hemolysis, red blood cell death, lead organelles to spread in the solution and block the absorbance of light in the colorimeter. By comparison of the measured osmolarity and hemolysis between the different solutions provided the data to understand, how a red blood cell react in different osmolarity to maintain