IGCSE Biology
International School of Lusaka
Demonstrating osmosis using visking tubing
You will set up this experiment using the instructions below:
10% sucrose
solution water
water solution
solution 10% sucrose
solution
Method:
1. Collect warm water in a beaker and soak three pieces of visking tubing in it.
2. Remove one and tie a knot very close to one end of it.
3. Use scissors, tweezers, pointer and stirring rod to open the tubing.
4. Three quarter fill the visking tubing with 10% sucrose solution and tie a know close to the end.
5. Rinse and dry the outside.
6. Find the mass and record it.
7. Describe the fullness of the tubing as qualitative data.
8. Repeat steps 1 to 7 with water in the visking tubing and 10% sucrose in the beaker .
9. Design a control experiment (an experiment that you can compare your results to).
10. Repeat steps 1 to 7 for your control experiment.
11. Place each visking tubing in a beaker of distilled water and leave for 30 minutes.
12. Remove from the beakers.
13. Dry the outside and find the mass.
14. Describe the fullness of each tubing as qualitative data.
Use the rubric to complete these tasks:
1. Record qualitative and quantitative data.
2. Draw a bar chart to show the CHANGE in mass of both visking tubings.
3. Write a conclusion about your results
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Data table
Qualitative results for 10% Quantitative results for 10 % Qualitative results for Quantitative results for
sucrose solution sucrose solution control experiment control experiment
Initial Initial mass (g) Initial Initial mass (g)
Final Final mass (g) Final Final mass (g)
Graph of results
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Conclusion
What do your results tell you about the movement of water through a semi-permeable membrane when there is higher
concentration inside?
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Evaluation
What were the strengths of this investigation? (What steps helped to give reliable results)
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What were the weaknesses of this investigation? (what affected the results)
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