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Module 11 Flashcards

Osmosis, Tonicity, Osmoregulation

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Molarity

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the concentration of a solute in a solution

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Permeable

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When a membrane allows water or solutes to diffuse through it freely

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Impermeable

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When a membrane blocks the diffusion of water and solutes entirely

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Selectively Permeable

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Allows the movement of some molecule but not others

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Aquaporins

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Allows water to diffuse freely across the cell membrane at a rate much faster than would be possible by simple diffusion alone

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How does water move across the cell membrane

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Diffusion, through the concentration gradient

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Concentration gradient

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High to low water concentration

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Solute concentration is low so

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Water concentration is high

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Water concentration is low

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Solute concentration is high

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How does water more in relation to solute concentration

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water moves from low solute concentration to high

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Osmosis

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The movement of water across a SELECTIVELY PERMEABLE membrane in response to a difference in water concentration

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What is osmosis a response too

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The solute concentration inside the cell in relation to the outside

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Equilibrium

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When the concentration of solutes is the same on the 2 sides of the membrane

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Net movement during equilibrium

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stops although water molecules continue to move in both directions

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Water potential

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All of the chemical and physical properties that affect the movement of water, such as osmosis pressure and gravity

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Water moves towards what kind of water potiental

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Water goes towards more negative water potential

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Osmotic Pressure

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the tendency of water to move from one solution into another by osmosis

the tendency of a solution to draw water in by osmosis

Cell has an increased external pressure, or decreased internal pressure

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Hydrostatic pressure

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the pressure that gravity exerts on the solution

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Water moves to

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Higher solute concentration

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Tonicity

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How strongly water is pulled into one solution compared to another
“strength” describes osmotic pressure and the direction of water movement

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Higher Tonicity

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Has higher solute concentration
Draws water in by osmosis

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Hypertonic

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Solution with a higher solute concentration than another

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Hypotonic

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Solution with a lower solute concentration than another solution

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Isotonic

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Solution has the same solute concentration as another solution

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Hypertonic relative to the inside of the cell

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Water leaves cell by osmosis

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Hypotonic relative to inside of the cell

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Water moves into the cell by osmosis and swells
Less salt outside

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What causes Lyse

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Hypotonic relative to the inside of a cell

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Lyse

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Burst/ rupture

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Isotonic relative to inside of the cell

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cell/ homeostasis

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Paramecium

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A unicellular eukaryote that lives in freshwater
Extracellular environment is hypotonic relative to the cells interior
Face risk of lysis, has contractile vacuole

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Contractile vacuole

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Takes up excess water from inside the cell, and expels it by contractionion into the external environment

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Turgor Pressure

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the force exerted by water pressing against an object

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What is turgor pressure resulted from

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Water moving by osmosis into cells surrounded by a cell wall
IN PLANTS, BACTERIA, FUNGI, AND PROTISTS

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Osmoregulation

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regulates the osmotic pressure inside a cell and organism

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High osmotic pressure

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Damage/ lyse cell

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Low osmotic pressure

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dehydration

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Osmoconformers

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Animals that keep their internal fluids at the same osmotic pressure as the surrounding environments
Live in areas of stable solute concentration= sea water

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Urea

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Waste product of protein metabolism that many animals excrete
Sharks and rays retail this solute to achieve osmotic equilibrium w /surrounding sea water

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