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.