Diata, Reina Love

FERMIONS

GENERAL BIOLOGY
(week 1)
What I know
1. D
2. A
3. D
4. A
5. B
6. A
7. D
8. A
9. C
10. A
11.C
12.A
13.C
14.A
15.A

What’s In
What would you observe? Which one dispersed quickly? What would be the
reason?
The experiment shows that when water is hot, the rate of diffusion is much
faster even when comparing to cold temperature of water. When temperature
was increase, the whole process took less time to complete. On the other hand,
when the temperature of the water was decreased, the diffusion process took a
lot longer to complete. As I can see on the experiment, this was generally about
how temperature affects the rate of diffusion.
 What’s New
Guide Questions

3.9 cm 0.1 cm 2g 1.9g 0.1g

3.4 cm 0.6 cm 2g 1.7g 0.3g

3.2 cm 0.8 cm 2g 1.2g 0.8g

1. Observe what happen to the potato strips in the 3 setups, in terms of weight and
size?
At the beginning, all the potato strips were supposed to have the same length and all
felt the same. However, when you put them in different solutions, this is starting to change.In
this case, the independent variable is the different concentrations of salt water, with
dependent variable of percent weight change. flexibility of the slices did not change much,
those exposed in hypotonic solutions became slightly tougher (not easily bent), those in
hypertonic solutions became slightly more flexible. If we bent the potato strips, we should have
noticed that those that had been in the solution with the highest amount of salt were much
easier to bend than the potato strips in the water without salt.
2. If there any changes happen to the potato strips, what would be the reason? Explain.

It is because the osmosis. Osmosis is due to the shrinking and expanding of the potato
strips. Potatoes are composed of cells which act as moderately membranes on their cell walls.
Lesser salts and much more water than potato cells can be found in Zero gram of solvent.
3. Give your conclusion about the activity.
The experiment confirmed that the salt concentration of the solution became
increasingly more diluted, the potatoes will become increasingly heavier in comparison to their
prior form, and that the point of balance could be found in between the two opposing
concentrations. Under the exposure to hypotonic solutions with increasingly higher
concentration of water, through osmosis, water moves from the solution into the cells for
balance, leading to increase in size proven through slightly more rigid slices, and increase in
weight through measurements.
 What’s More
A.

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B.

1. Diffusion
2. Active transport
3. Diffusion
4. Osmosis
5. Active transport
6. Osmosis

What I can do
a. Glucose cannot pass across the cell membrane by easy diffusion, since it is
clearly wide and is directly rejected by the hydrophobic tails. Rather, it goes
 by active transport, which entails molecules traveling through the
membrane by going through the proteins of the tube.
b. The glucose molecule is too big to move across a cell surface through quick
diffusion. Alternatively, cells support the diffusion of glucose by active
transport and two forms of simple diffusion.
c. Glucose will flow across a semipermiable (artificial) membrane. However, if
both concentrations are equal, there will be no net flow in either direction.
The system is at equalibrium, having equal flow in both directions.

Assessment
1. A
2. A
3. D
4. C
5. A
6. D
7. B
8. C
9. A
10. A
11. C
12. A
13. A
14. B
15. C

Additional Activities
Cell division and cell death are the two predominant physiological
processes that regulate tissue homeostasis in the adult organism. The importance
of dysregulation of these processes in the pathogenesis of major diseases, such as
cancer, myocardial infarction, stroke, atherosclerosis, infection, inflammation and
neurodegenerative disorders, is becoming increasingly evident.