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Osmosis of a Potato cell. Hypothesis is that the potato in saltwater is going to show that it will break down the cells of the potato. Osmosis is the diffusion of a solvent through a semi-permeable membrane, from a solution of low solute concentration to a solution with high solute concentration, up a solute concentration gradient.

Net movement of solvent is from the less-concentrated to the more-concentreated., which tends to redure the difference in concentrations. This effect can be countered by increasing the pressure of the hpertonic solution, with respect to the hypotonic.

Osmosis is important in biological systems as many biological membranes are semipermeable. In general, these membranes are impermeable to organic solutes with larege molecules, such as polysaccharides, while permeable to water and small, uncharged soluts. When the membrane is in a volume of pure water on both sidesssss, water molecules pass in each direction at the same rate.

Osmosis can also be......

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