Question

A. Apparently , water can move through short-lived gaps that appear in the inside of the bilayer. As a result, the movement of the solvent through the phospholipid bilayer can be understood by applying the concept of osmosis.

B. what is osmosis?

C. under what conditions would the net movement of water be into the cell? Explain.

D. If a cell shrinks due to loss of water through the cell membrane, it is said to have undergone crenation. what would cause this to occur? Explain.

E. what conclusion can you draw about the ''ideal'' concentration of total solutes both in and outside the cell? Explain

Answer 1

we will answer this question one by one

what is osmosis

osmosis is a process in which a solution passes from a semi permeable membrane here it is phospholipid bilayer. and the solution or liquid passes from less concentrated area to more concentrated area.

under what condition the movement of the water would be inside the cell?

as stated earlier the water will move inside the cell if the concentration inside the cell will be more than the concentration outside the cell.

If a cell shrinks due to loss of water through the cell membrane, it is said to have undergone crenation. what would cause this to occur? Explain.

crenation is a process in which the cell loses the water inside it and shrinks this happens mainly due to the reason that the cell gets surrounded by the hypertonic solution which means it has higher osmotic pressure than the substance inside the cell and we already know that water flows lower concentration to the higher concentration so that it will loose the water in the process and will shrink down.

what conclusion can you draw about the ''ideal'' concentration of total solutes both in and outside the cell? Explain

for the osmosis to be done right the only ideal condition is that the concentration where we want the water to move through the semi permeable membrane should be greater than its surrounding.

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