Cellular Characteristics + Prokaryotes Flashcards
Cellular characteristics can be classified as ______ or _______
Prokaryotes & eukaryotes
All cellular characteristis include plasma membrane, cytoplam, ______, ______
Nucleic acid, ribosomes
Maintain cell shape
Allows substance in/out
Plasma membrane function
Phospholipid
Proteins
Plasma membrane consits
One head
- hydrophillic
- polar
Phospholpid head
Two fatty acid tails
- hydrophobic
- non-polar
Phospholipid tails
2 layers of phospholipids (bilayer)
Heads on edges
Tails face inwards
Phospholipids in plamsa membrane
Plasma membrane has permeability (selective)
Size
-small molecules pass more easily
Hydrophobic molecules pass more easily
Lipid solubility
Uncharged molecules pass more easily
Charge permeability
At surface of membrane not inserted into hydrophobic tails
Peripheral proteins
Integrated into membrane interested into hydrophobic tails
Intergal protein
Postionting:
- can extend only part way into membrane
- can extend across entire membrane
Intergal protein
High concentration -> low concentration
No energy input required
Passive proccess
Low concentration -> high concentration
Energy input required
Active process
Simple diff. Facilitated diff. Osmosis are ______ process
Passive
High concentration -> low concentration
Directly through membrane
-doesnt involve integral membrane proteins
Simple diffusion
High concentration -> low concentration through intergal membrane proteins (transporter proteins)
Facilitated diffusion
Form channels
Non-specific
Channel protein
Bind molecule->change shape
Specific
Carrier proteins
- Movement of water across membrane from high concentration of water -> low concentration water
- water moves to high concentration of solutes
- water can cross directly or use aquaporins
Osmosis
Channels that allow water to quickly cross membrane
Aquaporins
Ability of a solution to make water move into or out of a cell via osmosis
Tonicity
Solute concentration is the same inside and
outside cell
-Water moves equally into and out of cell
Isotonic solution
Solute concentration is greater outside the cell
-Water moves out of cell -> plasmolysis (shriveling of cytoplasm)
Hypertonic solution
-Solute concentration is less outside the cell -Water moves into cell -> lysis (cell bursts)
Hypotonic solution
Low to high concentration
-Require energy (ATP)
Active process
Molecule isn’t altered
-In prokaryotes and eukaryotes
Group translocation
Molecule is altered
-In prokaryotes only
Group translocation
Inside plasma membrane
-Mostly water
Cytoplasm
Include DNA and RNA
Differs in prokaryotes and eukaryotes
Nucleic acid
Site of protein synthesis
- Composed of proteins + ribosomal RNA (rRNA)
- Differs in prokaryotes and eukaryotes
Ribosomes