Question

I did an experiment with potato slices and regular tap water vs. a salt solution. What would my results show about the concentration of cytoplasm at the beginning of the experiment?

Answer 1

Osmosis is defined as a net movement of particles of solvent along its concentration gradient, across a selectively permeable membrane, in anticipation of equilibrium is established.

In the following experiment

The solvent particles are water particles, the selectively permeable membrane are the cell membranes of the cells in the potato tissue.

The concentration gradient is the result of the difference in the concentration of solute in the cytoplasm of the potato cells and the solutions.