SCB 115 Lab 5 Diffusion and Osmosis

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Exercise 9 Content

Learning Objectives

After completing this lab, the students will be able to:

  • define diffusion and osmosis.
  • explain the relationship between rate of diffusion and molecular weight
  • Predict the movement of water (or other substances) across semi-pemeable membranes.
  • Recognize hypertonic, hypotonic and isotonic solutions.
  • Predict changes in living cells placed in a hypertonic, hypotonic, or isotonic solution.

Lab Readings

Read the following materials before you begin the experiment.

  1. 5.2: Passive Transport contributed by Boundless (Libretext).
    5.2A: The Role of Passive Transport
    5.2B: Selective Permeability
    5.2C: Diffusion
    5.2D: Facilitated transport
    5.2E: Osmosis
    5.2F: Tonicity
  2. Passive Transport: Filtration and Facilitated Diffusion by Barbara Liang.
    Click Next to start the slide.
    https://www.wisc-online.com/learn/general-education/anatomy-and-physiology1/ap11103/passive-transport-filtration-and-facilitated
    Passive transport: osmosis by Barbara Liang.
    https://www.wisc-online.com/learn/natural-science/life-science/ap11003/the-cell-passive-transport-osmosis
  3. Chapter 7-3 The Cell Membrane; Active and Passive transport (21 slides).
  4. https://microbenotes.com/osmosis-and-diffusion/ by Anupama Sapkota.
  5. Passive transport, active transport, Bulk transport (Openstax).
  6. Active transport: Endocytosis, Exocytosis, and Sodium-potassium pump.
    https://www.biologycorner.com/bio1/notes_active_transport.html

Videos

  1. View Transport Across Cell Membranes video below or on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPAZvs4hvGA, before you start the lab activity.
  2. View active transport.wmv on youTube.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5pWH1r3pgU

Lab Activity

in this lab activities, you will observe how to conduct these experiments in the lab.

  1. Diffusion Methylene blue through Agar Gel.
    https://www.biophysics.org/Portals/0/BPSAssets/Education/Documents/LessonPlanDiffusion_122115sm.pdf 
  2. Diffusion Potassium Permanganate, Methylene Blue, and Safranin after 30 minute.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdJsu4S56mM&feature=youtu.be
Diffusion Potassium permanganate and Methylene Blue through agar gel after 1 hour.

3. Cell membrane model demonstration using dialysis tubing on you tube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CNGe3jMej0
4. Dialysis Tubing Diffusion Time-lapse on you tube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kp9EvMeTMUs&feature=emb_logo
5. Osmosis Demo. Time lapse start at 3.50. (Bozeman Science)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQsAzXr0UCU&feature=youtu.be
6. Onion Osmosis happened after salt solution is added.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S29InN1YSl4&feature=youtu.be

7. Red blood cells under the microscope, hypo and hypertonic solutions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8cI6FkcG4c&feature=emb_logo

Quiz

  1. Diffusion Quiz (6 questions)
    https://www.biologycorner.com/quiz/qz_diffusion.html
  2. Cell transport quiz.
    https://www.unmisravle.com/passive-and-active-transport-worksheets/passive-and-active-transport-worksheet-worksheets-for-all-2/