Diffusion is the spontaneous movement of substances from a region of high concentration to a region of low concentration.
Osmosis is the passage of water molecules from a high water concentration region through a selectively permeable membrane to a low water concentration region.
In diffusion, selectively permeable membrane is neither required nor involved while in osmosis, it is involved.
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In order to study the formation of cancer cells, you should study the life cycle of normal cells as cancer cells are abnormal cells.
Actually, Normal cells grow, divides and died after an interval of time. And when this process is break down, cancer cells begin to form. They are usually old cells which don't die after their life cycle.
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