OSMOSIS DISCUSSION by Praveenthiran Sekaran

2024-01-12 05:34:02 UTC

diabetes

cow

2024-01-12 05:35:17 UTC

The red blood cell will shrink as the water from within the red blood cell will diffuse to the sugar solution, decreasing it's volume of substance shrinking it. (I think)

2024-01-12 05:36:02 UTC

When a red blood cell is immersed in a concentrated sugar solution, the water potential in the cell is higher than the water potential in the solution. Therefor the water will move from the high water potential to the low water potential area from the red blood cell to the solution causing the red blood cell to shrink

it will lead to dehydration of the cell, which would cause the cell to shrink

2024-01-12 05:36:02 UTC

2024-01-12 05:36:21 UTC

The red blood cell would shrivel up as it has a higher water potential than the concentrated sugar solution with low water potential. The water molecules will move across the red blood cells membrane into the concentrated sugar solution.

yuanhuilee — 2024-01-12 05:36:28 UTC

Osmosis is the process where water is diffused through a partially permeable membrane from a higher potential region to a lower water potential region going down the concentration gradient, the water will continue to be diffuse until both regions have same concentration of water, so the red blood cell will shrink as the redblood cell will have a higher water potential and all the water would be diffuse

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Jaycool08 — 2024-01-12 05:37:18 UTC

A red blood cell is an animal cell. Osmosis happens due to the movement of water molecules from a place of high water potential to a place of low water potential through a partially permeable membrane. When a red blood cell is immersed in a concentrated sugar solution, the which has a lower water potential than the cell, the water moves out of the cell through the partially permeable plasma membrane. The cell shrinks and shrivels due to the outgoing water flow.

2024-01-12 05:37:28 UTC

the concentrated sugar solution has lower water potential, while the red blood cell has higher water potential. because of this difference in water potential, and because osmosis goes down the water potential gradient, water molecules will move out of the red blood cell to the concentrated sugar solution surrounding it. this will continue until both regions are of the same water potential. this process leads to the red blood cell shrinking due to it losing water.

2024-01-12 05:37:32 UTC

it shrinks, because there is a lower water potential on the outside of the cell and higher water potential inside. Osmosis happens from high to low water potential therefore the water inside the Red-blood cell will go through the partially permeable membrane and to the solution.

2024-01-12 05:38:11 UTC

The red blood cell will shrink and lose water. The concentration of the sugar is higher outside the cell than inside, which causes the water molecules to move from higher water potential to lower potential, from the red blood cell to the sugar solution.

osmosis

2024-01-12 05:38:23 UTC

when the red blood cell is immersed in the concentrated sugar solution, the red blood cell would have a higher water potential than the sugar solution so the water would move from high water potential area to a low potential area which is the sugar solution. this causes the red blood cell to shrink in size due to water loss experience.

cocoa bean0328

2024-01-12 05:39:22 UTC

When placed in a concentrated sugar solution, the red blood cell will become shriveled. This is because osmosis is a process in which the particles will move from a region with higher water potential to lower water potential across a selectively permeable membrane until an equilibrium is reached. However, due to the high concentration of the sugar solution, this signifies that it has a lower water potential as compared to the contents inside the red blood cell and therefore, this will cause the contents of the red blood cell to move across the membrane towards the concentrated sugar solution because of osmosis, causing it to shrivel up.

Osmosis will occur and the water from the red blood cell will diffuse to the sugar solution leading to the red blood cell to shrink.

2024-01-12 05:41:37 UTC