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The write-up of my investigation. Aim: This experiment is to investigate osmosis on potato cylinders in different moles of sucrose solution ranging from distilled water to 1.0 mole in even steps. Prediction: Osmosis occurs when water is transported from a high concentration to a low concentration, through a partially permeable membrane. In this experiment we should find that the cylinders in the distilled water should become turgid because of water diffusing into the vacuole, making the cells increase in weight and length. The cylinders in the higher concentration of sucrose solution should loose weight and length and so become plasmolysed because of water diffusing out of the vacuole. This causes the cytoplasm to pull away from the cell wall and so making it flaccid. After collecting the data I would expect a graph to look like this. The distilled water would become turgid and the strongest molar solution would become plasmolysed. I would...

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