Lauren Collins

7/24/14
Performance Think Sheet Osmosis Experiment
1. What concentration of corn syrup solution did your group have?


2. Did your egg grow, shrink, or stay the same? What was the percent change in mass of your
egg?


3. Based on the direction of water movement (into the cell vs. out of the cell), was your egg in a
hypotonic, hypertonic, or isotonic solution? Explain.


4. Based on the graph you created from the class data, what corn syrup solution concentration
would provide an isotonic environment for the egg? Explain.


5. Why does water move across the cell membrane in any environment?


6. What do you think might happen to a cell placed in an extremely hypotonic environment? In
an extremely hypertonic environment?