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in mammals, where there is a synapse, a chemical is diffused across the gap between the neurones. :)
Minerva Orn
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∙ 12y agoDiffiusion is the very natural movement of things (usually gasses or substances in solution, but really anything) from an area of higher concentration to an area of lower concentration. Most of what a plant does is through diffusion. For that matter, most of what goes on in your body or any organism's body is through diffusion.
Plants absorb water and nutrients from the soil into their roots by allowing the nutrients and water to diffuse from an area of higher concentration (recently watered rich soil) to an area of lower concentration (a plant that needs more water and nutrients). When a plant is not watered, it will dry up along with the soil. However, if a plant is overwatered, it will get droopy and wet-looking because, like the soil it is planted in, it will have a lot of water in it. Respiration in a plant is also by diffusion.
Really though, you work by diffusion too. There is more oxygen in the air than in your blood, so when you pull air into your lungs, which are basically just a two-cell-thick bag of air surrounded by blood vessels, the oxygen goes from the air (high concentraion) into your blood (low concentration); the reverse happens with carbon dioxide. When you eat, various enzymes break down food into tiny particles, usually just one molecule, which are then absorbed into your blood in the intestines for use by your body through a similar means as oxygen in the lungs: there is more sugar or amino or fatty acid in the food than in your blood, so it moves from an area of higher concentration to an area of lower concentration. Even getting drunk: the alcohol in beer (~5% alcohol) moves into your blood, which has a much lower concentration of alcohol (hopefully not much more than .5% or so).
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If you light a candle is it osmosis or diffusion?
osmosis is to do about plants so it is diffusion hope this helped
Do vascular plants have root?
Non-Vascular plants do not have roots because they rely on diffusion for water.
What properties of water that help plants transpire?
Evaporation and diffusion
What it is called when carbon dioxide moves into the leaves of plants?
diffusion
How does Transportation of glucose in plants occur through diffusion?
u are so retarted No plants don't use diffusion or osmosis lol if you don't know go frickin read wikipedia
How is diffusion useful for aquatic plants and animals?
la la la
Does diffusion take place in all types substances?
no only plants and animals
Diffusion important to bacteria?
Bacteria are unicellular organisms which means they have only one cell to perform all the required functions suchs as growth, repair and reproduction. Because bacteria are to small to have a digestive system, bacteria relies on diffusion to get its nutrients and water. So therefore diffusion is important to bacteria
Why does photsynthess represent diffusion in the human body?
Photosynthesis does not represent diffusion in the human body. Photosynthesis is the process by means of which plants capture sunlight energy and store it as sugar.
How do diffusion of gases differ in day time and night time in plants?
This is because during daytime there is exchange of O2 gas due to diffusion whereas at night time there is exchange of CO2 . This is how diffusion differ in day and night time
How do the cells of nonvascular plants get the nutrients they need?
By diffusion of the nutrients through the cell walls and membranes.
Absorbtion of water by plant is an example of?
Absorption of water by plants is a form of diffusion called osmosis.
