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Experiment to investigate the effects of various sucrose solutions on potato. Osmosis is defined as the net movement of water or any other solutions molecules from a region in which they are highly concentrated to a region in which they are less concentrated. This movement must take place across a semi-permeable membrane such as a cell concentration i.e. in the solution; to a low concentration i.e. in the potato piece. Therefore, the potato pieces in a higher water concentration (low sucrose) will gain more mass through osmosis than those pieces in a higher sucrose concentration. however, at a point, in the concentration change, I expect the potato to actually lose mass. This is due to the fact that as the concentration of sucrose in the solution increases, it will reach a point where the potato and the solution are isotonic (the concentration of sucrose in the solution equals that of the concentration...

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