Answer:
Energy is not a requirement for the occurrence of osmosis
Explanation:
Osmosis is a passive method of water movement driven by the concentration gradient between the cell's membrane and the extracellular fluid. In OSMOSIS, water moves from a region of low solute concentration/high solvent concentration to a region of high solute concentration/low solvent concentration via a semi-permeable membrane.
Water will naturally move across a living cell's membrane when the concentration of the solute in the cell differs from that of the extracellular solution. Osmosis is a special type of diffusion, hence, no energy is expended by the cell to perform this process. This is why it is called a PASSIVE transport.
