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To find out the effect of sucrose concentration on the mass of a potato cell. To find the concentration of the cell sap in a potato.
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Osmosis in a Plant Cell Aim: To find out the effect of sucrose concentration on the mass of a potato cell. To find the concentration of the cell sap in a potato. Introduction: Osmosis is when water passes from a weaker to a stronger solution through a semi-permeable membrane. This happens to decrease the concentration in the stronger solution, and increase it in the weaker solution, creating an equal balance in the two solutions. Water moves in to plant cells in the root hair cells by osmosis. A root hair cell's membrane is semi-permeable, like all plant and animal cell membrane. This allows water to move through into the vacuole of the root hair cell. The water moves from the high water concentration in the soil, to the low water concentration in the cell's vacuole. The root hair cell has a large surface area to make this process more efficient. This experiment looks...
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