OSMOSIS IN RED BLOOD CELL

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Introduction

Osmosis is a special type of diffusion. Tonicity is the ability of a solution to induce a net flow of water through a selectively permeable membrane.

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Objective The experiment aims to show what would

happen to red blood cells when subjected to hypotonic, hypertonic and isotonic solutions

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Materials and Methods

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Materials and Methods

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Materials and Methods

NaCl Solution

0.07M

0.15M

0.30M

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Materials and Methods

Every 10 minutes

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Results
Table 1. Initial Size of Red Blood Cells
Slide Initial cell size (mm) Average cell size (mm)

A (0.07 M NaCl)

0.004,0.006,0.006

0.005

B (0.15 M NaCl)

0.105,0.105,0.105

0.105

C (0.30 M Na

0.14,0.105,0.105

0.117

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7/12/12 Figure 1. Size of Red Blood Cells on Slide A (0.07 M NaCl)

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Figure 2. Size of Red Blood Cells on Slide B (0.15M NaCl) 7/12/12

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Figure 3. Size of Red Blood Cells on Slide C (0.3M) 7/12/12

Results Graph 1 showed no net increase or decrease in the cell

size of Red Blood Cells treated with O.07 M NaCl. Graph 2 showed no net increase or decrease in the cell size of Red blood cells treated with 0.15 M NaCl. Graph 3 showed a net decrease in cell size of Red blood cells treated with 0.3 M NaCl

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Discussion Osmosis is a process by which water moves through a

selectively permeable membrane. The net flow of water would be from a region of lower solute concentration to that of a higher solute concentration until both have an equal concentration on both sides of the selectively permeable membrane (Starr & Taggart, 1995).

Hypotonic solution results in Hemolysis Isotonic solution Hypertonic solution results in Crenation

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Discussion

Some of our experimental results differ with that of the theoretical results . The measurement of the cell sizes were determined by getting the average of three random cells in the slide which can be a source of error because those three cells might not represent the majority of the cells. Another error could be the uneven distribution of the NaCl throughout the slide which might not have reached other areas.

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