what do you mean by water and solute regulation in freshwater
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what do you mean by water and solute regulation in freshwater
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Osmosis – passive regulation
Cells of living organisms contain a lot of water and different solutes (ions, proteins, polysaccharides), creating a specific concentration inside the cell membrane. This membrane is semi-permeable, meaning that it only allows the solvent (water) to move across, but not the solutes. When cells are submerged into a solution of a different concentration, the law of osmosis comes into play. Osmotic pressure is a tendency of water to move into one solution from another by osmosis – passing a membrane from a high water concentration to a low water concentration. The higher the osmotic pressure (difference between the solutions on either side of a membrane), the more water tends to move across in order to balance the concentration.
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