Which of the following statements about osmosis is incorrect?
Osmosis describes net water movement across selectively permeable membrane driven by difference in solute concentration and water chemical potential, not by ATP. Plasma membranes and artificial phospholipid bilayers act as semi-permeable barriers allowing water to partition and diffuse but restricting most solute diffusion due to polarity. Water molecules move randomly but statistically from compartment with lower osmolarity, higher water mole fraction and higher chemical potential, to compartment with higher solute concentration, lower water potential, until hydrostatic pressure compensates o
Ref: Alberts et al., Molecular Biology of the Cell, 6th ed., Chapter 11: Osmosis and Water Movement.