IGCSE Biology / Life processes

Osmosis revision notes

Edexcel International GCSE Biology (4BI1), chapter 1: Life processes, specification point 2.15, 2.17. Part of the full course.

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Osmosis is the net movement of water through a partially permeable membrane, from higher water concentration to lower water concentration. It explains how cells gain or lose water and how to find the concentration inside potato cells from a graph.

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