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Observing Osmosis in potato cells.
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Observing Osmosis in potato cells. The aim of the experiment I am going to conduct 3 experiments to find out what happens to pieces of potato when they are placed into 6 different sugar solution concentrations. Introduction Potatoes are made up of thousands of plant cells. Plant cells contain a vacuole that contains different concentrations of glucose in them. When the potato pieces are placed into a sugar, water will either enter or leave the potato via osmosis. Osmosis is a form of diffusion that occurs when cells of one concentration is placed into a solution until a state of equilibrium is reached. The definition of diffusion is: 'The random passive movement of particles from an area of high concentration to an area of low concentration.' However osmosis is a special case of diffusion and so has its own special definition, which is, 'The net movement of water particles from a region of high...
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