Chapter 7-12 Flashcards
Lipids
Carbon-containing compounds
(fats, waxes, sterols, and phospholipids)
Nonpolar/hydrophobic
3 most important types of lipids
fats, steroids, phospholipids
Steroids
ring structure with variable functional group
Phospholipids
consist of glycerol that is linked to a phosphate group and two other hydrocarbon chains
Phospholipids Bilayers
does not dissolve in water
can interact with hydrophilic head, NOT hydrophobic tails
Phospholipids
adapts 2 shapes in water:
micelles
lipid bilayers
Short lipid bilayers
unsaturated, higher permeability
long lipid bilayers
saturated, lower permeability
3 mechanisms of membrane transport
- diffusion and osmosis
- facilitated diffusion
- active transport
facilitated diffusion
channel proteins, carrier proteins, transporters
active transport
pump proteins, moves materials against their concentration gradient and requires energy provided by ATP or an electrochemical gradient
Passive transport
moving materials down their concentration gradient and do not require an input of energy
Which transport requires energy to move across the cell membrane?
Active
Which transport does not require energy to move across the cell membrane?
Passive
Osmosis
the diffusion of water from high to low/solvent concentration.
hypertonic
higher solute concentration, excess-tone, lower water
water out of cell, cell shrinks