1. Potato Lab

2. Obtain two pieces of potato. Label one cup salt and the other tap.
Get two cups
Obtain two pieces of potato.
Label one cup salt and the other tap.
Put you name on both cups.
Take the measurements of the potato and record as indicated on the lab report.
Fill one cup with salt solution and the other with tap water.
Place the corresponding piece of potato in the salt and the tap water.
Place on the counter where indicated for you class.

5. A solute is a substance that can be dissolved by a solvent to create a solution. A solute can come in many forms. It can be gas, liquid, or solid. The solvent, or substance that dissolves the solute, breaks the solute apart and distributes the solute molecules equally. This creates a homogenous mixture, or solution that is equal throughout.
Solute
Solvent
Solution + =

6. Hypotonic
When the concentration of solute molecules outside the cell is lower then the concentration in the cytosol, or fluid in the cell, it is called Hypotonic.

7. Isotonic When the concentration of the solute of the molecules of the cell are equal inside and outside the of the cell they are isotonic.

8. Hypertonic
When the concentration of a solute molecules outside the cell is higher then the concentration in the cytosol, is a hypertonic solution.