biology

An Investigation on the effect of varying concentration of a certain sugar solution on the amount of osmotic activity between the solution and a potato chip of a given size.


What is Osmosis?

Osmosis is the movement of water or any other solution's molecules from a region in which they are highly concentrated to a region in which they are less concentrated. This movement must take place across a partially permeable membrane such as a cell wall, which lets smaller molecules such as water through but does not allow bigger molecules to pass through. The molecules will continue to diffuse through the cell wall until a state of equilibrium is reached, this means that the molecules are shared throughout an object which has no area that has a higher or lower concentration than the other.
Many cell membranes behave as semi permeable membranes, and osmosis is a vital mechanism in the transport of fluids in living organisms, for example, in the transport of water from the soil to the roo...