What among the following describes osmosis? 1. The diffusion of water from an area of low solute concentration to an area of high solute concentration. 2. Osmotic pressure is the force that allows water to move by osmosis through a selectively permeable membrane. 3. When a cell is immersed in a hypertonic solution, water enters the cell by osmosis, which causes it to swell and eventually burst. 4. A solution with a greater concentration of water and low concentration of solute is termed as hyposmotic.
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