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TEACHERS’ NOTES Diffusion 5.03 Experiment 5 Discussion – answers 1 There should be no escape of pigment in tube 30. Tube 70 should have a deep red colouration. 2 The red pigment does not diffuse out of the cell at 30oC but it does so at 70oC. 3 The cytoplasm and nucleus are composed of living material. Cell sap and the cellulose cell wall are not living materials. 4 High temperature kills most living materials (by denaturing their proteins, e.g. enzymes and structures in the cell membrane). 5 It seems likely that a living process in the cytoplasm controls the diffusion of the pigment. Diffusion of pigment is prevented when the cytoplasm and cell membrane are intact but not when they are ‘killed’. Students may suggest that the nucleus is the controlling factor since they have learned that the nucleus controls processes in the cell. If this were the case, the intact nucleus would have to influence some process in the cytoplasm, making it impermeable to the red pigment.