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Plagiarism Assignment 1: Passive Transport

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Plagiarism Assignment
Question 1: Passive Transport Experiment
Diffusion is the passive transport of materials through a semi-permeable membrane from high concentration to a lower concentration. Because the concentration gradient is moving down, no energy (ATP), is required to transport the materials so the transport is passive. Osmosis is simply the diffusion of water across a cell membrane (“Complete Resource”, n.d.). Many factors can affect the rate of which osmosis occurs, including temperature, surface area, and pressure, among other things (“Complete Resource”, n.d.). In this procedure, we will look at how temperature affects osmosis. In osmosis, as temperature increases, the rate of osmosis increases (“Complete Resource”, n.d.). I have designed an experiment to test this theory. For …show more content…

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