Question

Difine osmosis an it's advantages

Answer 1

• It is a process in which water molecules move from a higher concentration to a lower concentration.

• In the digestive system, osmosis plays a key role in nutrient absorption.

• Osmosis allows your body to absorb these nutrients into the intestines and individual cells.

• Reverse osmosis is most commonly known for its use in drinking water purification.

• Osmosis is largely important to plants because the root cells absorb water by this process.

                                                         

Answer 2

Correct Question:-

Define Osmosis And It's Advantages.

Answer:-

Osmosis

It is the process by which molecules move from higher concentration to lower concentration.

Osmosis refers to the movement of fluid across a membrane in response to differing concentrations of solutes on the two sides of the membrane. Osmosis has been used since antiquity to preserve foods by dehydration with salt or sugar. The removal of water from a tissue by salt was referred to as imbibition. This description comes from the notion that these solutes attracted water from material they touched.

Advantages Of Osmosis:-

1. It is a mean by which plant cells maintain their water content despite the loss of water to the air that is constantly occurring.

2. It provides turgidity to the softer tissues and is, therefore, essential for their mechanical support.

3. It controls the absorption of water by root hairs from the soil.

4. Diffusion pressure deficit is responsible for the movement of water across the cortical cells of the roots.

5. Cell to cell diffusion of water is also affected by osmosis.

6. Conduction of water from xylem elements to the neighboring cells is controlled by osmosis.

7. Growing tips of roots remain turgid because of osmosis and are, thus, able to penetrate into the soil.

8. Higher osmotic pressure of the cells provides resistance to the plants against drought injury.

9. It controls opening and closing of stomata during transpiration through its regulation of the turgidity of guard cells.

10. Movement of plants and plant parts are controlled by cell turgor which is induced by osmosis.

11. It greatly influences the meristematic activity of the cells and hence growth of the plant.

12. Dehiscence of fruits and sporangia are also controlled by osmosis.