For this experiment, we're going to examine how this pressure affects the cherries - and the farmers that grow them! Osmosis is the diffusion of fluids through membranes. It is the way plants absorb ...

1. By means of the plasmolytic method it is shown that the osmotic pressure in the cells of Spirogyra, Zygnema, and Oedogonium found in Nobska Pond, near Woods Hole, Massachusetts, at 22 ⚬ C., is ...

In order to survive, organisms must control the pressure inside them, from the single-cell level to tissues and organs. Measuring these pressures in living cells and tissues in physiological ...

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American Journal of Botany, Vol. 33, No. 4 (Apr., 1946), pp. 278-285 (8 pages) The germination of alfalfa seeds was tested on substrates supplied with solutions of NaCl and mannitol at osmotic ...