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Name the following:

The term for the inward movement of solvent molecules through the plasma membrane of a cell.

Osmosis is the passage of water across a semi-permeable membrane from the region of higher concentration of water to a region of lower concentration. The concentration of the cell sap is very high thus water enters the cells across the cell membrane, which acts as the semi-permeable membrane.


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