Lab 2 Terms and Lesson Flashcards
What is the plasma membrane and what is its purpose?
A flexible yet sturdy barrier that surrounds and contains the cytoplasm. The membrane contains channels and other proteins to support the movement of molecules across from the extracellular to the intracellular environment.
What is the inferior of the cell filled with?
Cytoplasm which contains cytosol and organelles
How do cells of the human body differ from the generalized animal cell?
Shape, size, number, or type of organelles present.
What are striations?
They are alternating colored line alone cells and patterns of cells
What is fluid within cells?
Intracellular fluid (ICF)
What is fluid outside of body cells?
Extracellular fluid (ECF)
ECF that fills narrow spaces between cells of tissues
Interstitial fluid
Liquid portion of blood
Plasma
Phospholipid bilayer
Two back to back layers made up of three types of lipid molecules: Phospholipids, cholesterol, and glycolipids
Diffusion
Net movement of solutes from a region of greater concentration to a region of lesser concentration
What is the term for moving down a concentration gradient?
Diffusion
Osmosis
Diffusion of solvent across a selectively permeable membrane in response to differences in solute concentration
Movement from ____ concentration to ____ concentrations is an example of osmosis
high, low
Movement from ____ solute concentrations to ____ solute concentrations is an example of osmosis
low, high
What moves in diffusion?
Solute
What moves in osmosis?
Solvent
What is the solute/solvent moving through in diffusion?
solute moving through space
What is the solute/solvent moving through in osmosis?
solvent moving through a selectively permeable membrane
Tonicity
The effect of a solution on cell shape
Hyperosmotic
High concentration ECF, “Hypertonic”, shriveling (cretation) occurs because more fluid is leaving the cell than coming into it.
Isomotic
Same concentration ECF and ICF, “Isotonic”, cell remains the same shape because fluid is coming in and out of the cell equally
Hyposmotic
Low concentration ECF, “Hypotonic”, cell gets bigger and lyses occurs because more fluid is flowing into the cell than out of it.
Tissue
An aggregation of cells performing a similar function
Histology
The study of the microscopic structure of tissues
What are the four PRIMARY types of tissues?
Epithelial, connective, muscle, and nervous tissue