Glossary

=**Glossary**= = =
 * Crenation-** Crenation is the contraction of a cell after exposure to a hypertonic solution, due to the loss of water through osmosis.


 * Equilibrim**- The point at which particles are distributed evenly throughout a system; they move at equal rates in all directions.


 * Flaccid-** Drooping or inelastic through lack of water.


 * Hypertonic**- a solution with a higher concentration compared with another solution.


 * Hypotonic**- A solution with a lower solute concentration compared with another solution.


 * Impermeable**- Unable to be passed through.


 * Isotonic**- a solution with the same concentration compared with another solution.


 * Osmoregulation** - Regulation of water balance.


 * Osmosis -** The movement of a solvent, usually water, due to osmotic pressure.

Isotonic- A fluid with an equal concentration to another fluid; water diffuses equally in both directions
 * Osmotic pressure-** The pressure needed to prevent Osmosis from occuring; the higher the pressure, the more likely that water will diffuse in.


 * Permeable** - able to be passed through.


 * Solute-** A substance that can be dissolved in another substance.


 * Turgid** - When so much water is taken into a plant cell that the cell wall stretches causing the cell to be swollen and rigid.