what do you mean by osmosis
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Osmosis is the passage ot water from a region of high water concentration through a semi-permeable membrane to a region of low water concentration. ... If the medium has exactly the same water concentration as the cell, there will be no net movement of water across the cell membrane.
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Osmosis is the movement of a solvent across a semipermeable membrane toward a higher concentration of solute (lower concentration of solvent). In biological systems, the solvent is typically water, but osmosis can occur in other liquids, supercritical liquids, and even gases.
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