5: How do we fuel our body? Flashcards
Define glycolysis.
First stage of ATP synthesis.
Series of chemical reactions occuring in the cytosol, converting glucose into 2 pyruvic acid molecules, and 2 ATP molecules.
Define citric acid cycle
Series of chemical reactions occuring in the mitochondria, converting pyruvic acid into ATP and electron carrier molecules
Define oxidative phosphorylation
Last phase of the ATP synthesis. Series of chemical reactions occuring on the inner mitochondrial membrane, converting electron carrier molecules to ATP.
Define glucose
Simple sugar molecule (monosaccharide).
Used by thebody to make ATP or stored as glycogen for future use.
Define ATP
Adenosine Triphosphate. An adenosine molecule with 3 attached phosphate molecules.
When ATP is broken down, ‘energy’ is released and used by cells and tissues to function.
Define mitochondria
An organelle in the cell where ATP is produced
Define lipid bi-layer
The head to tail arrangement of phospholipid molecules in the cell plasma membrane
Define selectively permeable membrane
Plasma membrane strucutred specific to cells to only let some substances pass through
Define osmosis
Movement (diffusion) of water across a selectively permeable membrane. Moving from high concentration to low concentration.
Define hypertonic
A hypertonic solution has more solutes than water molecules, comparing to intracellular fluid. >290 m0smol/L
Define hypotonic
A hypotonic solution has more water molecules than solutes compared to the intracellular fluid. <290m0smol/L
Define isotonic
Isotonic solution has the same total concentration of solutes (osmolarity) as intracellular fluid. Approx 290 m0smol/L
Define diffusion
Movement of solutes from area of high concentration to area of low concentration without the use of ATP
Define facilitated diffusion
Movement of solute across a plasma membrane via the use of a carrier/channel protein without the use of ATP
Define symport
Movement of 2 different ions or molecules in the same direction across a plasma membrane via acarrier/channel protein
Define antiport
movement of 2 different ions or molecules in the opposite direction across a plasma membrane, via a carrier/channel protein
What is plasma membrane composed of? (3)
Phosholipids, proteins, cholesterol
Bi-molecular layer of ________________ forms the basic structure
Phospholipid molecules
_____________ are inserted between the phospholipid molecules at regular intervals
Cholesterol molecules
_________ and _________ proteins incorporates in plasma membrane like icebergs floating in a sea of phospholipids
Integral, peripheral
Lipid bilayer serves as a highly impermeable barrier to most _____________ and ________substances.
Charged (polar), non-lipid soluble
_____________ acting as pores/channels/carriers to allow these substances to cross the membrane
Integral proteins
Factors of permeability of plasma membrane (name 3)
- solubility in lipids
- driving forces (up or down gradient)
- molecular size
Transport of substances across plasma membrane can either be active or ________
passive
Water-soluble substances require specialised ___________ proteins to function as channels or carriers
transmembrane
What are the 3 types of passive transport across membrane?
- Diffusion through the lipid bilayer (lipid soluble substances)
- diffusion through ion channels (water soluble subtances)
- facilitated diffusion using a carrier (water soluble substances)
What does active transportation through the cell membrane require?
Cellular energy (ATP)
Examples of lipid-soluble substances that can diffuse directly through the plasma membrane
Respiratory gases, lipids, small alcohols, urea
What is the driving force for a diffusion through the lipid bilayer?
Concentration gradient
What water soluble substances diffuses through the plasma membrane through channels?
ions, water
What water soluble substances diffuses through the plasma membrane through facilitated diffusion?
Sugars and amino acids
What is the driving force for channel and carrier mediated passive ransport of water soluble substances?
Concentration gradient or electrical gradient
What substances require facilitated diffusion to travel pass plasma membrane?
glucose (out of the cell), fructose (into the cell)
What is the driving force of facilitated diffusion that control the rate of movement?
Steepness of concentration gradient; the number of transporter proteins in the membrane
What is the driving force of transportation via ion channels (that is also a membrane proteins)
Electrochemical gradient