explain the ways in which active transport is different from osmosis?
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Osmosis is a type of passive transport, unlike active transport. Active transport utilizes the use of protein pumps such as sodium-potassium pumps, while osmosis does not. Another difference is how osmosis does not require any energy to move the molecules while active transport does.
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The movement of water by osmosis is the main reason why it is so important to control the water balance of the body. Active transport uses energy to move substances against (up) a concentration gradient or across a partially permeable membrane.
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The motion of molecules is through the semi-permeable membrane in osmosis, whereas in diffusion motion is direct and does not require a semi-permeable membrane. Osmosis undertakes in liquid medium only, whereas the process of diffusion undertakes in any medium (solid, liquid and gases).
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Active transport requires chemical energy because it is the movement of biochemicals from areas of lower concentration to areas of higher concentration. On the other hand, passive transport moves biochemicals from areas of high concentration to areas of low concentration; so it does not require energy.
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In facilitated diffusion, ions, sugars, and salts are transported across the membrane. In active transport, ions, sugars, and salts are also transported. The second similarity is that both facilitated diffusion and active transport use proteins as their means of transporting their materials to and from the cell.
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There are two major types of cell transport: passive transport and active transport. Passive transport requires no energy. It occurs when substances move from areas of higher to lower concentration. Types of passive transport include simple diffusion, osmosis, and facilitated diffusion.
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is that exosmosis is osmosis in which fluid flows through a membrane towards a region of lower concentration while osmosis is the net movement of solvent molecules from a region of high solvent potential to a region of lower solvent potential through a partially permeable membrane.
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Osmosis is the diffusion of starch molecules through a selectively permeable membrane. Diffusion through ion channels is a form of active transport. Passive transport uses ATP to move molecules against their concentration gradient. ... In active transport, energy is required to move a substance across the cell membrane.
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Active transport can be defined as the movement of molecules across the cell membrane, pumping the molecules against the concentration gradient involving ATP (energy), whereas passive transport can be defined as the movement of molecules within and across the cell membrane and through the concentration gradient, ...
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Osmosis is the diffusion of a fluid through a semipermeable membrane. ... The osmotic pressure of a solution is the pressure difference needed to stop the flow of solvent across a semipermeable membrane. The osmotic pressure of a solution is proportional to the molar concentration of the solute particles in solution.
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What are the difference between them? they both change the concentration level outside and inside the cell. Active transport requires energy and moves low to high concentration. Facilitated diffusion is passive transport moves high to low.no energy.
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Osmosis involves the movement of water molecules. Water molecules move from a region of high concentration to a region of low concentration. Facilitated diffusion on the other side involves insoluble compounds such as sugars, amino acids and ions which can pass through a partially permeable membrane.
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One big difference between osmosis and diffusion is that both solvent and solute particles are free to move in diffusion, but in osmosis, only the solvent molecules (water molecules) cross the membrane.
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That's what osmosis is and that's what forward osmosis is. Reverse osmosis uses that same semi-permeable barrier or membrane, but instead of allowing fresh water or lower-saline water to move across to a higher concentration to dilute that side, you do the opposite. ... That's a major difference between RO and FO.
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Explain the difference between passive transport and active transport. Passive transport moves substances down their concentration gradients and, therefore, does not require an input of energy from the cell. Active transport moves substances up their concentration gradient and requires energy input from the cell.
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Both go down concentration gradient. Osmosis is the movement of water molecules, but diffusion is for any molecule. Osmosis happens across a partially permeable membrane, while diffusion does not need a membrane, it happens directly in the fluid.
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Explanation: Osmosis involves water moving from an area of low solute concentration to an area of high solute concentration across a semi-permeable membrane. Dialysis is different to this, and involves the separation of small molecules from large molecules.