Question

In lab, a dialysis bag was filled with a 10% sucrose solution and placed in an unlabeled beaker filled with clear liquid. The dialysis bag was made of a semipermeable membrane that allowed the free passage of water, but was not permeable to sucrose. After two hours, the bag in the beaker decreased in size, lost volume, and became flaccid. Therefore, at the beginning of the experiment, the solution in the bag was ____________ compared to the solution in the beaker. g

Answer 1

Answer:

Of lower concentration or less concentrated

Explanation:

Osmosis is the movement of solvent from a region of lower concentration of solute to a region of higher concentration of solute through a semipermeable membrane in order to equalize the concentration of the solutions on both sides.

Since the membrane of the bag is semipermeable, then the fact that the bag in the beaker decreased in size, lost volume, and became flaccid indicates that the solution in the bag is of lower solute concentration than the solution in the beaker hence the movement of water molecules into the beaker by osmosis.