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    experiment B of exercise 1,the students will investigate the process of osmosis and diffusion in a model membrane system and the effect of solute concentration on water potential, the force created by both physical pressure and solute concentration, as it relates to living plant tissues. Diffusion is the passive movement of molecules or particles from a region of high concentration to an area of low concentration. Particularly, osmosis, a special type of diffusion, is the diffusion of a solvent,…

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    Goodhead and Frances M. MacMilla, osmosis is a process that is fundamental for life where water and small molecules cross the semipermeable membrane. They hypothesized that being in a hypotonic solution can lead to hemolysis. Their experiment called “Measuring osmosis and hemolysis of red blood cells” proved that when the concentration is low, and there is high network of water going inside the cell…

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    have been dissolved off. This gave us a differentially permeable membrane so that we can observe osmosis and what happens when the membrane is presented with different solutions. Since we did not know the concentration of the egg, we had to assume that it equaled the concentration of the membrane. We then had the ability to determine the concentration based off the assumption and the rate of osmosis. We used 5 different sucrose solutions: 0%, 10%, 20%, 30%, and 40%. One group had an ‘Unknown’…

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    diffusion is known to be osmosis, which is known to be the diffusion of water through a water allowing or permeable membrane. Only water should be able to move through most oftenly. Therefore, the diffusion of one or more other substances along with water should not come in, such as solutes. An everyday example of osmosis is from the result of proned fingers. The bathtub that the person is showering is less concentrated in comparison with your body, thus, it is using osmosis to get into our…

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    higher concentrated solution than a lower concentrated solution. The data also supported the prediction that the mass of the G. gallus domesticus egg in 10% NaCl will weigh less than the G. gallus domesticus egg in the 1% solution. Diffusion and osmosis play an important role in moving solutes and water from high concentrations to low concentrations until equilibrium is reached. In both the 5% and 10% solutions the mass of the G. gallus domesticus egg decreases in mass and then slowly starts to…

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    Osmosis and Diffusion Egg Lab In this lab, an egg is used as a representation of an actual cell, the shell being the cell wall, and the yolk being the nucleus, which like an actual cell also expands when placed in a substance like water, and shrinks when placed in a thick substance like corn syrup. I hypothesize that water will make the egg hypotonic, which means that the cell is swollen due to an excess of water in its environment and corn syrup will make the egg hypertonic, which is the…

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    Egg Osmosis Egg Lab Report

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    In this lab, the effects of osmosis on an egg without a shell will be observed; an egg will be submerged in water and then corn syrup. Osmosis, the process of water moving from a low concentrated area to an area of high concentration, is the main theme of this lab. The purpose of this experiment is to view the effects of an egg in a hypertonic state, hypotonic state, isotonic state and diffusion. Hypertonic is the movement of water leaving the egg to an area of higher concentration. When this…

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    membrane, it only allows specific substances to pass in and out of the egg membrane down its concentration gradient. In this case, we are trying to measure to the diffusion of water that goes in and out of the egg membrane. This is also known as osmosis. We performed the experiment by placing the egg into two different solutions, the corn syrup and water. The corn syrup is an example of a hypertonic solution while the water is an example of a hypotonic solution. Because of that, the egg has…

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    Osmosis in Deshelled Chicken Eggs Brooke Sandy Partners: Alexa Smarra, David Egesigh, and Yousef Bahliawah Abstract Throughout the process of this experiment, chicken eggs were used to test how well certain solutions would be absorbed. The objective was to determine the rate and direction of osmosis into and out of cells according to their diffusion gradients. During this experiment eggs were rolled on paper towels to blot the excess liquid and then weighed. They were then placed into one of…

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    or active transport. While plant cells have a cell wall to combat high concentrations of water, animal cells only have a cell membrane. This lack of support can make a hypotonic animal cell expand and burst. A hypertonic animal cell will undergo osmosis and release water eventually causing the cell to shrivel up and shrink. Both of these results make it extremely important for animal cells to reach equilibrium or isotonic levels. Place 4 full pipettes of starch into a small beaker. Use a pipette…

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