The central vacuoles of the plant cells in this image are full of water, so the cells are turgid. The action of osmosis can be very harmful to organisms, especially ones without cell walls. For example, if a saltwater fish whose cells are isotonic with seawater , is placed in fresh water, its cells will take on excess water, lyse, and the fish will die.
Another example of a harmful osmotic effect is the use of table salt to kill slugs and snails. Organisms that live in a hypotonic environment such as freshwater, need a way to prevent their cells from taking in too much water by osmosis. A contractile vacuole is a type of vacuole that removes excess water from a cell. Freshwater protists, such as the paramecium shown in Figure below , have a contractile vacuole. The vacuole is surrounded by several canals, which absorb water by osmosis from the cytoplasm.
After the canals fill with water, the water is pumped into the vacuole. When the vacuole is full, it pushes the water out of the cell through a pore. Osmosis Imagine you have a cup that has ml water , and you add 15g of table sugar to the water.
Osmotic Pressure When water moves into a cell by osmosis, osmotic pressure may build up inside the cell. Controlling Osmosis Organisms that live in a hypotonic environment such as freshwater, need a way to prevent their cells from taking in too much water by osmosis. The contractile vacuole is the star-like structure within the paramecia. Summary Osmosis is the diffusion of water. In comparing two solutions of unequal solute concentration, the solution with the higher solute concentration is hypertonic, and the solution with the lower concentration is hypotonic.
What is osmosis? What does salt do to water? What is a hypotonic solution? What happens to water in a hypotonic solution? What is a hypertonic solution? What happens to water in a hypertonic solution? What happens to water in an isotonic solution? Students should have been able to distinguish between the cell walls and the cell membrane more clearly as more water leaves the cell and the cytoplasm shrinks.
Ask students the following questions to guide the post-lab discussion. As students answer the questions, sketch an Elodea plant cell on the board, filling in the cell with the subcellular structures being discussed.
See the Elodea Plasmolysis website for pictures of Elodea cells in various salt solutions. You can review these with the class and ask students to compare these with what they saw in their observations.
The following key concepts should be discussed with students:. Have students answer the Conclusions questions of the worksheet in their lab notebook. These questions can be used as an assessment tool to check student understanding.
A website with an active description about osmosis and the movement of water in and out of cells is How Substances Get Into and Out of Cells. Students can read the information on this site and view the animations until the section entitled "Demonstration of Osmosis Using Visking Tubing," which is not relevant to high school students.
From this activity, students could proceed to Diffusion, Osmosis and Active Transport , a site that can enhance their understanding of dynamic equilibrium within cells, diffusion, and osmosis.
There is an interactive on this page that allows students to observe diffusion, osmosis, and active transport. In this lesson, students explore how infographics can be used to portray the differences and similarities between and among animal species.
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The central vacuole takes up most of the volume of the cell. It is transparent, but you can see where it's pressing the chloroplasts up against the cell wall, especially at the ends of the cell. Like animal cells, the cytoplasm of this plant cell is bordered by a cell membrane. The membrane is so thin and transparent that you can't see it, but it is pressed against the inside of the cell wall. This cell was alive and at x magnification when it was photographed.
This human cheek cell is a good example of a typical animal cell. It has a prominent nucleus and a flexible cell membrane which gives the cell its irregular, soft-looking shape. Like most eukaryotic cells, this cell is very large compared to prokaryotic cells. For scale, notice the pair of dark blue bacteria cells sticking to the right edge of the cheek cell.
The bacteria are only a fraction of the size of the nucleus, but their tiny size is typical for bacteria. This cell was stained blue and was magnified to x its normal size when it was photographed.
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