Osmosis lab

Introduction:
Membrane transport is the method that the cell use to move things pass through
membrane. It has two types, passive and active. Passive transport is the movement of water that
move from a high concentrated solution to low concentrated solution. The first type of membrane
transport is active. The active moves from the low to high concentration and also requires the
energy. The second type is passive transport. It has three types, which are simple diffusion,
facilitated diffusion and osmosis. Frist, simple diffusion is molecules pass through the
phospholipid to enter or leave the cell and they do not require energy, moving from high to low
concentration. Oxygen and carbon dioxide are moving in and out by simple diffusion. Second,
facilitated diffusion is the method which the substances move into or out of cells and goes down
to their concentration gradients through protein channels in cell membrane. Facilitated diffusion
is also move from the high to low concentration like simple diffusion but it has the difference in
how the thing passes through the cell membrane. In facilitated diffusion, there have a specialized
membrane channels, in which polar molecules that cannot fit between the phospholipids will
enter and leave cells through facilitated diffusion. Lastly, osmosis is the movement of water that
moves from a less concentrated solution, or hypotonic, to a more concentrated solution, or
hypertonic, through a partially permeable membrane. A hypertonic solution has more solutes
than water but a hypotonic solution has more water than solutes. However, there will be no
movement if it is in the isotonic stage, which is the solvent and solutes are equal (Membrane
Transport, n.d.).
In this lab experiment, it is to let us know the difference of water movement and also
understand about the osmosis. We will use jellies and potatoes to try out. We will have six
beakers in one set have three beakers for jellies and another set for potatoes the first beaker will
be a distilled water or hypotonic, the second will be a salt water or hypertonic and the last beaker
will be an empty beaker. After that, we will put the jellies into the distilled water, salt water and
the empty beaker and do the same with the potatoes. So, if we put the jellies into the salt water it
will be smaller and look more transparent but if we put it in the distilled water it will bigger but it
also looks transparent.

Membrane Transport (n.d.) Retrieved from

http://www2.yvcc.edu/Biology/109Modules/Modules/MembraneTransport/membranetransport.ht
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Osmosis, 2014 Retrieved from
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/science/add_aqa_pre_2011/cells/cells4.shtml

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