BIO-8 Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: Semipermeable Membrane, Tonicity, Passive Transport

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Aquatic animals and plants face the challenge of water and salt balance. Solutes - dissolved substances that the water surrounding an aquatic organism and the water inside its body contain. Affect the movement of water in and out of an organism. Semipermeable membranes - membranes that allow only particular molecules to pass through for example, water and small solute ions and molecules. Solutes can move across semipermeable membranes using either passive or active transport. Passive transport - occurs when ions and small molecules move through a membrane along a concentration gradient, from a location with many solutes to a location with few solutes. Active transport - occurs when cells transport ions and small molecules through a membrane against a concentration gradient to maintain their concentrations. Expends energy because it requires the cell to work against the concentration gradient of solutes.

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