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Snowcat [4.5K]
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How do cells maintain water balance through osmosis? USATestPrep

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kakasveta [241]3 years ago
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Osmosis is the movement of water from a hypotonic solution to a hypertonic solution through a semi-permeable membrane. The cell utilizes this phenomenon to indirectly regulate water in its cytoplasm by regulating the amount of osmotically active solutes in its cytoplasm through active transport.
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