7-3 7-4 Vocab Flashcards

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Cell wall

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Supporting layer around the membrane normally in plant cells

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2
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Lipid bilayer

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Double layered sheets that make up the cell membrane

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3
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Concentration

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Mass of solute in solutions

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4
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Diffusion

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Particles moving from an area of high concentration to an area of lower concentration

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5
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Equilibrium

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Concentration is the same throughout a solution

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6
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Osmosis

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Diffusion of water through a selectively permeable membrane

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7
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Isotonic

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Two solutions are the same strength

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8
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Hypertonic

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The more concentrated of twosolutions

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9
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Hypotonic

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Solution that is less concentrated

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10
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Facilitated diffusion

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Extra channels for molecules that cannot diffuse across the regular cell membrane

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11
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Active Transport

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Requires energy to move materials against the concentration gradient

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12
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Endocytosis

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Taking materials into the cell by pockets of the cell membrane

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13
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Phagocytosis

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Cytoplasm surrounds a particle and packages it in a cell vacuole from there the cell engulfs it

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14
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Pinocytosis

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Pockets in the membrane take up liquid, pinch off, and form vacuoles

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15
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Exocytosis

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Membrane of the vacuole joins with cell membrane and forces the contents out of the cell

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16
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Cell specialization

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Cells develop different ways temper form different tasks

17
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Tissue

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Group of similar cells that perform the same function

18
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Organ

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Many tissues grouped together

19
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Organ system

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Organs that work together to perform a function

20
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Cell Membrane

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Thin, flexible barrier surrounding the cell; controls what comes into and goes out of the cell