How the Osmosis Is Performed in Our Bodies and How Can We Recreate It?

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Osmosis | August 27 2012 | How the osmosis is performed in our bodies and how can we recreate it? | Biology | Omar Alejandro Arrieta Guerreo Group: 310 Profesor: Mr. Manuel Torres Omar Alejandro Arrieta Guerreo Group: 310 Profesor: Mr. Manuel Torres Research question How the osmosis is performed in our bodies and how can we recreate it? Introduction Osmosis is the net movement of solvent molecules through a partially permeable membrane into a region of higher solute concentration, in order to equalize the solute concentrations on the two sides It may also be used to describe a physical process in which any solvent moves, without input of energy, across a semipermeable membrane (permeable to the solvent, but not the solute) separating two solutions of different concentrations Although osmosis does not require input of energy, it does use kinetic energy and can be made to do work A semipermeable membrane, also termed a selectively permeable membrane, a partially permeable membrane or a differentially permeable membrane, is a membrane that will allow certain molecules or ions to pass through it by diffusion and occasionally specialized "facilitated diffusion". Hypothesis Due to there is a difference in the concentration of both solution, and because they are in contact with a semi-permeable membrane, both solution will “react” with each other and through the membrane there will be an exchange of liquids trying to balance the concentrations. Variables Independent | Dependent | Controlled | Concentration of sucrose | Water absorbed by the membrane | Time | | | Temperature (0-45 min) | | | Kind of membrane | We need to keep the controlled variables all the same for the experiments to make sure that the results we obtain are not because of those variables. The variables were controlled during this experiment by the following order: the

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