Osmoregulation – Control of water balance

Osmoconformers
Use the simple jellyfish diagram below - to represent just one example of osmoconforming
marine invertebrates.

1. Annotate the diagram using the following labels;

 Salt water environment contains salts

 Cytoplasm contains dissolved salts
 Salt is taken into body cells (by active transport)
 Solute concentrations are equal
 No net movement of water by osmosis

2. List three other organisms who you think are probably osmoconformers.

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