Agenda 12/6—Day 5 Get out your lab books Obtain a potato tuber Put the tubers in order of how you think osmosis occurred based on the concentrations
Procedure Get a paper towel Label the with the 6 colors of the solutions As you remove the potato, place it under the appropriate color Handle the potato. What does it feel like? Can you use your knowledge to explain what is happening in each potato?
Solutions Distilled water=Blue .2 M Sucrose=Green .4 M Sucrose=Red .6 M Sucrose=Yellow .8 M Sucrose=Orange 1.0 M Sucrose=Clear
Collins Explain what knowledge you used to match the potato tuber to it’s respective sucrose solution Hypertonic Isotonic Hypotonic Water potential Turgid Plasmolysis flaccid