What Factors Affect Osmosis?

Surface Area

Pressure

Concentration of Solute

Temperature

Concentration Gradient

High PSI

Low PSI

Faster the nutrient gets pushed across a low concentration gradient

Slows down

Increases rate of osmosis

Large Surface

How doe surface area affect osmosis?

Temperature is a catalyst

The greater the surface area, the more space

Put plants in different air vacuum

increased temperature increase osmosis

The concentration of a solute affects the rate of osmosis over time, in a way where, the higher the concentration of a solute, the faster the rate of osmosis. This happens because, in a semi-permeable membrane the water is the only through that can move through.

Concentration gradient - The movement of osmosis is affected by the concentration gradient; the lower the concentration of the solute within a solvent, the faster osmosis will occur in that solvent. Light and dark – They are also factors of osmosis; since the brighter the light, the faster osmosis takes place.

How does hypotonic solutions affce tosmosis?

How does hypertonic solutions affcet osmosis?

What is the concentration gradient?

To what extent can the temperature increase to, to affect osmosis

Temperature of water used to water the plant

How does pressure affect osmosis?

Aquaproins

How do aquaproins affect osmosis?

When aquaporins are present, more water molecules can travel from the more dilute solution to less dilution solution across the semi-permeable membrane so presence of aquaporins would increase the rate of osmosis thus facilitating it.

What are aquaporins?

Aquaporins, also called water channels, are channel proteins from a larger family of major intrinsic proteins that form pores in the membrane of biological cells, mainly facilitating transport of water between cells.