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Ampiphatic

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A molecule containing both hydrophilic and hydrophobic areas

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What does the fluid mosaic model state?

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That the membrane is a fluid structure with various proteins embedded into it

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Why can phospholipids move within bilayer?

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Hydrophobic interactions are weak

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What are the two kinds of phospholipid movements?

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Lateral (more often) and flip-flop

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Why do phospholipids in membrane move around?

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Create heat to prevent solidification

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A membrane is fluid in ______ conditions

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warmer

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Cells in colder climates have more ______ to prevent ________

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unsaturated hydrocarbon tails

solidificiation

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How is cholesterol a buffer in both high and low temperatures?

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High: cholesterol makes bilayer less fluid by restraining phospholipid movement
Low: cholesterol hinders close packing of proteins, lowering temperature required for solidification

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What determines the function of the membrane?

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Proteins

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Integral proteins

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Proteins that penetrate through whole bilayer

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Peripheral proteins

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Proteins loosely binded to membrane surface

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Transmembrane proteins

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Peripheral proteins that span membrane

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13
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What does the hydrophobic region of integral proteins consist of?

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1 or more stretches of non polar amino acids coiled into alpha helices

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Major functions of membrane proteins

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Transport, enzymatic activity, signal transduction, cell-cell recognition, intercellular joining, attachment to cytoskeleton and extracellular matrix

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How do cells recognize eachother?

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By binding to surface molecules (often carbs) on membrane

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Membrane carbs may be bonded to ______, creating _______, or more commonly bonded to _______, creating ____________

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  • bonded to lipids, forming glycolipid

- bonded to proteins, forming glycoprotein

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17
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Exchange of material with surroundings is controlled by what?

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Membrane

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18
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______ molecules can pass through membrane easily

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Hydrophobic

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19
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List hydrophobic molecules that can pass through membrane

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Carbon dioxide, oxygen, hydrocarbons

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_____ molecules can not cross membrane easily

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Polar

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21
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List some molecules that cannot pass membrane easily

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Sugar, water

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What allows passage of hydrophilic substances

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Transport proteins

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Transport proteins

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Allows passage of hydrophilic substances

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Channel proteins

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Transport protein with hydrophilic channel that certain molecules and ions can use as a tunnel

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Aquaporin

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Channel protein that facilitates passage of water

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Carrier proteins

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Transport proteins that bind to molecules and change shape to shuttle across membrane

27
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Transport protein is specific to _______

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substance that it moves

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Diffusion

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Tendency for molecules to spread out evenly into available space

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Rule of diffusion

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Diffusion of population exhibits net movement in one direction

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Dynamic equilibrium

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where as many molecules cross one way as the other way

31
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Concentration gradient

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Difference in concentration of substance from one area to another

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Osmosis

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Diffusion of water across selectively permeable membrane

33
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Tonicity

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Ability of a solution to cause cell to gain/lose water

34
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What does tonicity depend on?

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The concentration of solutes that cannot cross the membrane

35
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Osmoregulation

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Control of water balance necessary for adaption to life in hypertonic/hypotonic conditions

36
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What’s special about the Paramecium?

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Pond is hypotonic to cell (water moves into cell), so it has contractile vacuole that acts as a pump

37
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Plant cell in hypotonic solution is calledf

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Turgid

38
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Plant cell in hypertonic solution causes lethal effect called….

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Plasmolysis

39
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Facilitated diffusion

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Passive transport quickened by aid of transport proteins

40
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Facilitated diffusion, what do channel proteins do?

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  • Provide corridors for molecules/ions to move across

- Aquaporins and ion channels

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Active transport

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Movement of substances against concentration gradient, requiring energy

42
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Active transport is performed by what?

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Carrier proteins

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What does active transport allow for cell to do?

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Maintain concentration gradient different from surroundings

44
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What does the sodium-potassium pump do?

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Exchanges sodium for potassium across membrane to maintain steep concentration differences

45
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How do large molecules cross in bulk?

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Packaging into vesicles, requiring energy

46
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Exocytosis

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Transport vesicles migrate to membrane, fuse, and release contents

47
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In which cells is exocytosis useful?

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Secretory cells (to export products)

48
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Endocytosis

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Cells take in macromolecules by forming vesicles from plasma membrane

49
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Types of endocytosis

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Phagocytosis, pinocytosis, receptor-mediated endocytosis

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Phagocytosis

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Cell engulfs particle in a vacule

51
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How is the vacuole created in phagocytosis digested?

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When fused with lysosomes

52
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Pinocytosis

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Cell gulps droplets of extracellular fluid into tiny vesicles

53
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Receptor-mediated endocytosis allows…

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Allows human cells to take cholesterol in for use in synthesis of membranes/steroids

54
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Ligands

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Any molecule that binds specifically to receptor site of another molecule

55
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Receptor-mediated endocytosis

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Binding of ligands to receptor, creating a vesicle

56
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Aquaporins speed up….

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Rate at which water reaches water potential equilibrium

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