Exam 2- Cells Flashcards
The most common gradients are the result of concentration differences, therefore called
Concentration gradients
Molecules move naturally with gradients from areas of high to low concentration, and it requires no energy
Passive transport
Molecules can also be moved against gradients from areas of low to high concentration, it requires energy
Active transport
How do some molecules move passively into cells? Moves with concentration gradient and it’s small enough to pass through the bilayer molecules. Example: food coloring in water
Simple diffusion
Specific type of diffusion that involves water is called
Osmosis
Ability of a surrounding solution to cause a cell to gain or lose water
Tonicity
Equal movement of water in and out of cells
Isotonic
Water goes into the cell and expands.
Hypotonic
Water goes out of the cell and shrinks
Hypertonic
A plant cell undergoes
Plasmolysis
Changes in cell shape can alter its ability to function, cells may have certain mechanisms in place in an attempt to maintain a proper water balance, also known as
Osmoregulation
Microorganisms pump water out to prevent lysis by osmotic water diffusion into the cell
Contractile vacuoles
Water content in the large central vacuole of plants help provide ___ on the cell walls
Turgor pressure
Loss of this pressure can cause wilting where the cells can become
Flaccid
The membrane is considered differentially or selectively permeable because
Membrane proteins can allow passage of certain select substances through the bilayer
Facilitated diffusion
Passive transport aided by protein transporters
Proteins act as pumps to transport materials as an example of
Sodium-potassium pump
In some cases, active transport of one substance can be used to establish a
concentration gradient in order to power the transport of a second substance
Cotransport
One carrier builds a high concentration of a substance on one side of the membrane, the substance then moves back via facilitated diffusion through a ___ bringing along another substance
Symporter
If a substance is moved in the opposite direction of its partner, the carrier is called an
Antiporter
A region of the plasma membrane surrounds the material and pinches it off into a vesicle inside the cell
Endocytosis
Large particles are surrounded and engulfed is called
Phagocytosis
The extracellular fluid is surrounded and internalized is called
Pinocytosis
Materials first bind to outer receptors is called
Receptor-mediated
The particular biomolecule a receptor protein binds to is called
Ligand
The reverse process, secreted materials are released from the cell in this way is called
Exocytosis
A combination of endo and exocytosis
Transcytosis
Microtubules
The largest, composed of protein tubulin
Microtubule organizing center
Plant cells can have many, but fungi and animals have one
- In animals it is known as the centrosome
Kinesin
Protein motor protein
Cilia
Like haired structures
Primary cilium
Involved in signal reception
Flagella
Same as cilia but longer.
Axoneme
9+2 core structure of microtubules
Basal body
9+0 arrangement
Dynein
Links the multiple microtubule components of cilia together
Microfilaments
Thinnest of the cytoskeletal components, they are composed of thin rods called actin
Thin rods called
Actin