This example shows you something new about osmosis.
Not only does WATER FOLLOW SOLUTES into the blood or the cells or the intestinal contents:
WATER FOLLOWS SOLUTES when they move from one area to another.
So if you want to move water from one part of your body into another, the way to do it is to move solutes. Then the water will follow them. Water doesn't care which solutes it follows; it always follows the majority of solutes.
Here's a tubule in your kidneys. The tubule is full of urine, and it has an ion pump that moves ions between your blood and your urine.
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Click on the correct answer to each of the following: When
this pump runs, the movement of ions will make the blood more When water follows solutes, the blood will Blood volume
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the
urine.
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a result.