Osmosis
Osmosis: Overview
This topic covers concepts, such as, Osmosis, Relation between Osmosis and Animal Cells & Relation between Osmosis and Plant Cells etc.
Important Questions on Osmosis
When an animal cell is dipped in pure water,

Give reason: what happens to plant and animal cell when it is placed in hypertonic solution.

Give reason: what happens to plant and animal cell when it is placed in a hypotonic solution.

Explain the role of osmosis in living organisms?

Difference between diffusion and osmosis.

Without any qualitative test outside the Visking tubing, to investigate the diffusion of starch through a membrane following things can be used:

The phenomenon of recovery of turgidity due to endosmosis of water is known as deplasmolysis or plasmolysis?


Wall pressure will _____ with rising in turgidity.

Name the process through which water enters the potato osmometer.

Absorption of water by plant roots is an example of


What happens when formalin preserved Spirogyra filament is placed in a hypertonic sugar solution?

All the following involves osmosis, except
