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Osmosis in Potatos

he potato cores in sucrose solution will lose mass. Also, the solution with the lowest sucrose concentration will have the cores which lose the least mass, and the solution with the strongest sucrose concentration will have the cells which lose the most mass.EvaluationI think that this investigation went well and that the results were fairly accurate. There were a few anomalous results, but because several readings at each concentration were done, these anomalous results did not disrupt the overall graph or the conclusions. The anomalous results were probably caused by a difference in the surface area of the cores which was due to imprecision during the cutting procedure. If this experiment was repeated, or a similar one undertaken, greater accuracy during cutting could probably prevent these anomalous readings occurring. I have several proposals for further experiments to provide additional evidence for my conclusion. I would like to undertake another experiment with sucrose concentrations at 5% intervals from 0% to 100%. I would like to do this as I feel it would provide a better and more reliable set of results and a more justified conclusion. When there are more concentrations the shape of the curve shape can be seen more clearly, I suspect that at the lower concentrations of sucrose the graph falls more steeply, flattening off at higher concentrations. I would also like to conduct an investigation, in conjunction with this experiment, to calculate the concentration of sap within the vacuole. To do this, I would find between which parameters the curve crosses the x-axis of sucrose concentration and retest at every 1% between these two parameters until I have found the concentration which contains a core that neither gains nor loses mass. This osmotic concentration would be the equivalent of the sap in the vacuole.As an extension to this investigation, I would run two experiments in parallel. All cores would be from the same potato,...

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