6. The Membrane

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?

Animal cells function optimally when placed in which type of solution?

Water moves up a plant because of hydrogen bonds by a process called __________.

In order for water reabsorption to occur during osmosis in the kidney, the solute concentration of the medulla needs to: