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Diffusion and Osmosis Answer Key

Understand how molecules move across cell membranes through diffusion and osmosis.

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Passive Transport

Q1.What is diffusion?

Answer

The movement of molecules from high concentration to low concentration until evenly distributed (no energy required).

Q2.What is osmosis?

Answer

The diffusion of water across a selectively permeable membrane.

Q3.What's a selectively permeable membrane?

Answer

A membrane that lets some substances through but not others (like the cell membrane).

Solutions and Cells

Q4.What happens to a cell in a hypotonic solution?

Q5.What happens to a cell in a hypertonic solution?

Q6.What's an isotonic solution?

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