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Match the Following Vocabulary Terms with Their Meanings

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Match the following vocabulary terms with their meanings.

-Lymph nodes, spleen, and thymus gland; tissue through which lymph travels


Definitions:

Solute Concentration

The amount of a substance dissolved in a unit volume of solution.

Selectively Permeable

A property of cellular membranes that allows some substances to pass through while preventing the passage of others.

Osmosis

A process where water molecules move from a region of lower solute concentration to a higher solute concentration through a semipermeable membrane.

Passive Transport

The movement of substances across a cell membrane without the need for energy input, down their concentration gradient.

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