BIOLOGY 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Semipermeable Membrane, Cell Membrane, Osmosis

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Diffusion: movement of molecules from an area of greater concentration to an area lower concentration. Notice: this does not have to be in a liquid - can be gases moving through the atmosphere. This movement requires no energy (happens without cellular input) Water being small and only having partial charges on its atoms, get across cell membranes much more easily than ions (charged molecules) get across the membrane (and it also often has special protein channels) Osmosis should have mostly the same effect on plant cells as on animal cells. One exception: the cell wall stops the expansion of the cell. Therefore our water does not cause plant cells to burst, like it does to animal cells. Diffusion is the movement of molecules from areas of high concentration to areas of low concentration. Osmosis is specifically the diffusion of water, usually across a semipermeable membrane.

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