6. The Membrane

Which of the following best describes the process of osmosis as depicted in biological systems?

What will happen to a saltwater fish if it is placed in freshwater?

If two solutions have unequal concentrations of solutes, which one will be considered hypertonic?

How does the cell wall protect a plant cell from bursting in a hypotonic solution?

Which process best describes the movement of water from the spongy mesophyll cells to the atmosphere in plants?

How was osmosis involved in causing Clark's seizures?

In the context of osmosis, if the blood has a higher solute concentration than the matrix of the brain, how would you describe the tonicity of the blood relative to the brain matrix?

Putting a plant in which type of solution will result in water loss and cause the plant to wilt?

In an osmosis experiment using a dialysis tube filled with a starch and glucose solution, the dialysis tube was permeable to which substance?

During osmosis, what is transported across a selectively permeable membrane?

Which of the following statements best describes a characteristic feature of osmosis?

You know that this cell is in a(n) _____ solution because the cell _____.

Which process allows green plants to control the amount of water stored in their leaves?

Water moves via osmosis __________.

What happens to plant cells when they are placed in a high salt (10%) solution?