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A measure of the ease with which a substance can penetrate a
membrane (12)
6.
For tonicity, you compare a solution against the inside of this
(4)
7.
The countervailing pressure developed in an artifical system as
water moves from one side to the other side (11)
8.
A membrane that is permeable only to solvent (5)
12.
This is calculated by multiplying the Concentration (in
Molarity) by the number of particles (10)
13.
The technical term that means shrinking of cells like RBCs (7)
14.
A solution which has a smaller number of particles than another
is said to be this, with respect to the other solution, in terms of the tendency foir water
movement (4-7)
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1.
The type of particles that need to be considered for determining
tonicity (3-11)
2.
A membrane that is permeable to some substances and impermeable
to others is said to be this in regards to permeability (11)
5.
The concentration of the solution expressed as the number of
moles of solute per liter of solution, and used to calculate Osmolarity (8)
9.
What happens to RBCs when they are placed in a hypotonic
solution
10.
This concept is used to describe what happens to a cell placed
in a particular solution which contains particles that cannot penetrate the cell membrane
but water movement is possible (8)
11.
If a particle is present at unequal concentrations across a
selectively-permeable membrane but cannot permeate, then this will move across (5)