Osmosis Jones
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Pay attention so you can answer all of the questions. Sit back and enjoy!
1. Define Osmosis. Use the term concentration gradient in your answer.
2. Why does Bill Murray get sick?
3. What does Joes represent in bill Murray’s body? Where does he live?
4. Why is using the term “Osmosis” in the title not accurate? Hint: Jones says, “You want
osmosis, you got osmosis.” Remember what Jones is and what osmosis is.
5. Why does Jones’ chief tell him to get his nucleus to the stomach? In other words, what is
the analogy here?
6. All the white blood cell characters have a transparent appearance around their bodies.
What organelle is this analogous to? Why is it transparent?
7. What does the hypothalamus do?
8. Jones stretches himself out before going into “The Zit”. Drix says “playable cellular
dynamics! What an ingenious defense mechanism.” What part of the cell membrane acts
like a defense mechanism with recognizing viruses?
9. When “The Zit” popped, Jones said to Drix, “You saved my cytoplasm.” What is the
cytoplasm in a cell?
10. How was Drix going to leave Bill Murray initially? Keep it clean!
11. What is a Uvula?