Hypertonic Egg Lab

When using a hypertonic and hypotonic solutions they can be shown in many different ways one way we showed this is putting an egg in corn syrup. The purpose of this lab is that students can observe and predict what is happening to an egg when you put it in hypertonic and hypotonic environments. The environments we put the egg in are vinegar, corn syrup, and water with food coloring. Using these materials we learned about osmosis, hypertonic environments, hypotonic environments, and passive transport. The purpose of this lab was to learn and get a better understanding of what is happening in the movement of molecules. If we put an egg into different environments then we will observe osmosis, passive transport, hypertonic environments, and hypotonic environments because the egg has a permeable plasma membrane and we will observe the effects of osmosis.
Osmosis is the net movement of water going from high to low on the concentration gradient. During this experiment we observed osmosis when we put an egg into corn syrup. When we placed the egg here the water moved from high concentration to low so the water in the egg moved out, this created a hypertonic environment.

During this experiment we are going to test this hypothesis by putting the egg into vinegar so the shell disintegrates and we get a permeable plasma membrane. After we will place it in two different substances one being corn syrup and the other is water with food coloring. We will observe how osmosis moves water across the plasma membrane during this whole experiment and how passive transport works. We will also observe Hypertonic and Hypotonic environments and how they move water across the plasma membrane going from high to low