workshop: Osmosis Interactive Lyrics

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I put this yummy gummy through a science experiment,
That models what happens to a _______in an environment
That’s more watery than the cell is ___________,
And what I saw, came as no surprise,

My gummy bear expanded — quintupled in weight,
My gummy expanded, an __________so great,
So listen up as Mr. W explains this!
It’s all about ______________!

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Osmosis is the __________of water,
Across a ___________or a water-permeable border.
Diffusing like all molecules in fluid situations,
From higher to lower __________________.

CHORUS
OSMOSIS!
H₂0 diffusing
OSMOSIS!
See that water oozing
_____________to ______________flow
OSMOSIS!
Let’s go!

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Let’s talk about our gummy, in osmotic terms,
Hypotonic, hypertonic, ____________are the words
You can use to discuss water’s watery diffusion,
Learn ‘em well, to avoid confusion.

Hypotonic means higher water concentration
And relatively lower __________concentration,
Hypertonic is the opposite –percent of water’s less,
With more solute ____________inside, as you might guess

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So let’s take these terms and apply them to our gummy bear,
I’m looking at the package, and seeing what it says here,
Each bear is mostly sugar with some other stuff mixed in,
And holding it together is the _________gelatin

So when you put a gummy in a cup of H₂O
It’s readily apparent that the gummy is so
______________to the _______that it’s in,
and the water’s ___________to our little gummy friend,

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And so through osmosis the water will __________,
Into the gummy which soon will look so huge,
The ________it gains is water which will _______________the gummy,
Which one day later, is looking pretty funny

Next I took this freshwater plant, name is elodea
It lives in lake and ponds never in the _________  sea 
In fresh water elodea cells are full and firm,
It’s all about osmosis as we’re gonna confirm.

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See the cells are hypertonic to their watery ________________,
So water will diffuse into the cell’s interior,
Expanding the membrane, pushing it against the _______,
In fact you can’t see the membrane at all,

But add some salty water so the outside’s hypertonic,
And water leaves the hypotonic cells, it’s so osmotic!
Membrane leaves the wall, the cells’ insides are scrunched.
With the _______________all stuck together in a bunch

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That’s why at the grocery they always have that mister
The __________on the veggies helps to keep them crisper,
Those droplets on the veggies are a _____________brew,
osmosis moves the water in, the veggies look brand new.

Dried fruit and beef jerky preservation is _________
Their low water content makes the dry food hypertonic
So any germs or molds that fall upon them lose their water
And die and don’t contaminate the dried food in the larder

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Animal cells, in situation hypertonic
Lose their water, shrink and shrivel look so sick
But an animal cell in hypotonic abode
Gains water and ___________, eventually explodes

‘Cause animals cells lack a wall, of course
So nothing pushes back at the osmotic force,
Water ____________from hypotonic to the hypertonic _______,
Which bursts cause the membrane can’t stop the _________,

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If you want to keep a frog heart outside a body beating,
An _________fluid, is what you’ll be needing,
Water concentration’s same on each _______of the cell,
No gain or loss of water, the cell’s feel so swell

And this paramecium which lives in ponds and lakes
Constantly fights osmotic water __________,
The contractile vacuole’s a _______________adaptation
To deal with this osmotic situation