BIOB34H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Osmotic Pressure, Fluid Compartments, List Of Lakes By Volume

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; pure water to areas with greater solute concentration: ion concentration, water volume. Ion concentration and osmotic pressure can be regulated separately through the use of organic solute molecules (i. e. amino acids) There are many inorganic ions (hydrophilic they go into solution) in our body which we must contain certain concentrations of which will relate to osmotic pressure because they are solutes. Volume is affected by ion concentration, but again, can be regulated independently using non- ionic solutes. This is important for osmotic conformers (humans are. If we look at aquatic animals, they can be in equilibrium with the environment. Some are regulators which will maintain a constant osmotic pressure regardless of ambient osmotic pressures. Conformers will alter their osmotic pressure with the environment. Regulators: shrimp; conformer: mussel; both: green crab in hypoosmotic pressure. Animals need a constant source of new water. For terrestrial animals, evaporation is a big source of water loss.

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