DIFFUSION





Movement of Substance within the Body.

There are many exauples in the body of substain moving up hill ie. Against the concentration gradieut in this care chemical energy is required, unusually in the from of ATP.




Diffusion:- it refers to the movement of a chemical substance from an area of lower concentration and occurs mainly in gases,liquids and solutions. 

DIFFUSION


1.This process enables the transfer of oxygen from the alveoli of the lungs (high concentration) through the alveolar and capillary walls into the blood (low concentration).
2. diffusion can also occur across a semipermeable membrane such as the plasma membrane.

OSMOSIS :


Osmosis is the movement of water down its concentration gradient across a semipermeable membrane when equilibrium cannot be achieved by diffusion of solute molecules.
1.its usually because the solute molecules are too large to pass through the pores in the membrane the force which called it has OSMOTIC PRESSURE.
EXTRACELLULAR FLUID (ECF):
It consists of blood ,plasma,lymph,CSF and fluid in the interstitial spaces of the body.
INTRACELLULAR FLUID (ICF):
The composition of intracellular fluid (ICF) is largely controlled by the cell itself,because there are selective uptake and discharge mechanism present in the membrane.
Composition of ICF:
Sodium levels are nearly ten times higher in the ECF.


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