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AS Biology – Unit 1 Topic 3: Cell Membranes and Transport
Osmosis is described in this film:
- Describe and explain what is meant by water potential
- Understand how the presence of a solute will affect the water potential
- Understand and use the terms hypertonic, hypotonic and isotonic
- Understand how the pressure potential is generated in plant cells
- Explain the terms turgid, plasmolysed and incipient plasmolysis in the context of water potential