How does paramecium avoid bursting because of osmosis?

Q: What is the role of osmosis in the physiologic regulation of water in the extra cellular…

A: Osmosis: This is defined as the process of movement of solvent particles from a region of high…

Q: What is the difference between a food vacuole and a vesicle?

A: A live organism's basic structural and functional unit is the cell. A cell, according to cell…

Q: During osmosis,water moves toward the solution with... solute concentration?

A: Osmosis is the movement of solvent molecules according to the concentration gradient across the…

Q: how can osmosis be applied to the physiological principle of a controlled exchange of materials…

A: Osmosis is the transfer of water through a semipermeable layer as indicated by the concentration of…

Q: What do you mean by plasmolysis?

A: Plasmolysis occurs due to osmosis. When the solvent in a solution moves from a lower concentration…

Q: What is mass transportation across the cell membrane?

A: Cell movements

Q: What is Osmosis in potato?

A: Osmosis is a process in which water molecules from the low concentration of solute to the areas…

Q: How Is Secondary Active Transport Driven by IonGradients?

A: Secondary active transport is a form of active transport across a biological membrane in which a…

Q: What is Endocytosis ? Explain the process ?

A: During endocytosis material that is being transported into the cell is parked into a sac-like…

Q: What kind of molecules can use simple diffusion?

A: Simple diffusion is the process by which molecules are moved along the concentration gradient from a…

Q: Which intermolecular process primarily drives the formation of a bilayer when phospholipids are…

A: Phospholipids are the chief constituent of the plasma membrane. They are amphiphilic and can form…

Q: What happens to cells in an isotonic, hypertonic and hypotonic solution? Why?

A: Tonicity refers to the measure of a cell's ability to gain or lose water in response to the solute…

Q: What is Pinocytosis?

A: Cells are the smallest living units of organisms. All cells have three things in common. All cells…

Q: If we swim in Dead Sea water, are our cell plasmolyzed ? Why?

A: Dead sea water is salty having more salt concentration and less solvent (water) concentration in the…

Q: Why do they do not penetrate through the lipid bilayer?

A: The cell is the basic structural and functional unit of our body. It carries out many functions in…

Q: Which process requires energy—passive or active transport? Why is energy sometimes required to move…

A: Passive Transport: Movement of a substance across a cell membrane with out the use of energy, from a…

Q: Why would the Na+–K+ pump, but not osmosis, cease to function after a cell dies?

A: The cell membranes possess the property of selective permeability that permits the entry and exit of…

Q: What happens to cells in isotonic solutions?

A: Tonicity is a term used to compare two types of solutions. The solution with higher solute and low…

Q: How is receptor-mediated endocytosis similar to facilitateddiffusion? How is it different?

A: Membrane transport system is the system which helps to transport the molecules across the membrane…

Q: what is the energy requirements for passive versus active transport

A: The cell membrane allows the molecules to move in and out of the cell. There are two types of…

Q: What would happen to chemiosmosis if the pH in the inner membrane space was decreased (lower)?

A: Chemiosmosis is the movement of ions across a semipermeable membrane, down their electrochemical…

Q: Which is the reverse process of osmosis?

A: Osmosis Osmosis is a special case of diffusion. Osmosis can be defined as the process where water…

Q: Which characteristic of a phospholipid contributes to the fluidity of the membrane?

A:

Q: What is the function of coated vesicles

A: The coated vesicles originate from the cell membrane by self-assembly of coat proteins, leading to…

Q: Why does a cell hyptonic burst?

A: All the cells have a membrane surrounding their organelles which allow support, protection and…

Q: Osmosis Define osmosis and why does blood cell become clear in distilled water?

A: Osmosis: Spontaneous transfer of solvent molecules from a region of low solute concentration into a…

Q: what are the two types of facilitated diffusion and what is an example of each?

A: Facilitated diffusion is a passive transport specific to large molecules such as glucose molecules,…

Q: Is the H+/sucrose cotransport system involved in passive or active transport? How do you know?

A: Secondary active transport is the transport in which the electrochemical gradient that is generated…

Q: Which of the following about osmosis is true?

A: Osmosis is one of the methods of the transport of solvent between two cells through a semi-permeable…

Q: What is Reverse osmosis? How is it different from regular osmosis? what are its application?

A: Osmosis It is a simple process in which solvent molecules move semipermeable membrane from lower…

Q: What is the difference between a hyperosmotic solution and a hypertonic solution?

A: Introduction : Osmosis refers to the process by which solvent molecules or water diffuse from higher…

Q: how does ethanol affect cell transport process?

A: The cell membrane is made of a phospholipid bilayer with proteins and cholesterol molecules…

Q: What Is Passive Diffusion?

A: Molecules can move via biological membranes via 2 main methods : active and passive transport.…

Q: What advantages are there to using diffusion as a transport mechanism versus active transport of a…

A: Diffusion,  osmosis, facilitated diffusion, and active transport are various physical process by…

Q: Why does the cell wall prevent osmotic lysis but not prevent plasmolysis?

A: Osmotic lysis or cytolysis occurs when a cell bursts due to osmotic imbalance that has caused excess…

Q: How do aquaporins affect the permeability of a membrane?

A: Water moves through cells in an organized way, most rapidly in tissues that have aquaporin water…

Q: What is bulk transport mechanisms what endocytosis what is pinocytosis what is phagocytosis and what…

A: It is of very importance to the cell that it be able to transport molecules from in and out of the…

Q: Solution A is hyperosmotic to solution B. If solution A is separatedfrom solution B by a selectively…

A: Osmosis is the process by which there will be a net movement of a solvent through a selectively…

Q: Provide short meaning for this terms Isotonic solution Hypotonic solution Hypertonic solution…

A: The cell is the basic fundamental unit of life that can exist as a singular unit or it can combine…

Q: Does the cell use energy to do osmosis?

A: Passive transport is a membrane transport system that does not require energy for the transportation…

Q: How does water move via osmosis?

A: Transportation: It is a process to distribute minerals, food, and water to all parts of the plant.…

Q: If the potato is allowed to dehydrate by sitting in open air, would the potato cells be more likely…

A: Potatoes are the tubers that grow on the plant Solanum tuberosum. It is typically composed of 2%…

Q: What are hypertonic solutions?

A: The behavior of cells in regards to water movement depends on the type of solutions in which they…

Osmosis

In simple words, osmosis is the slow, gradual movement of a liquid through a membrane. But there are nuances to this process. For instance, there has to be an imbalance in the distribution of solute in the liquid on either side of the membrane, which has to be semipermeable. The liquid in the region with a lower solute concentration moves to the region with a higher concentration, thereby displacing the solution in the process. The objective is to equalize the concentration of molecules on both sides of the membrane; the displacement of liquid can be viewed as a byproduct of this equalization. Since there is no energy required to carry osmosis, it is considered a passive process.