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One of the following is an example of osmosis

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One of the following is an example of osmosis. Which one?

  1. water moving from the glomerulus of a nephron into the Bowman’s capsule
  2. water leaving a blood capillary from close to its arteriole end, to enter the interstitial fluid
  3. water entering a red blood cell that is in a 0.8% sodium chloride solution, by passing through its plasma membrane
  4. water evaporating from perspiration on the skin
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saraalalwane
2022-09-11
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C: Osmosis refers to the movement of water through a membrane in the direction of its concentration gradient. A 0.8 % solution is hypotonic to the contents of the rbc, so water would enter the cell. In both choice A & C, the water is moving due to a hydrostatic pressure difference.

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