Vocabulary Flashcards

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Active transport

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Method of transporting materials that requires energy

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Amphiphilic

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Molecule Possessing a polar or charged area and a nonpolar or uncharged area capable of interacting with both hydrophilic and hydrophobic environments

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Antiporter

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Transporter that carries two ions or small molecules in different directions

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Aquaporin

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Channel protein that allows water through the membrane at a very high rate

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Carrier proteins

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Membrane proteins that moves a substance across the plasma membrane by changing its own shape

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Caveolin

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Proteins that coats the plasma membranes cytoplasmic side and participates in the liquid uptake process by potoctyosis

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Channel proteins

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Membrane proteins that allows the substance to pass through it’s hollow core across the plasma membrane

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Clathrin

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Protein that coats the plasma membranes inward facing surface and assists in forming specialized structures like coated pits for phagocytosis

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Concentration gradient

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Area of high concentration adjacent to an area of low concentration

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Diffusion

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Passive transport process of low molecular weight material according to its concentration gradient

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Electrochemical gradient

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I combined electrical and chemical force that produces a gradient

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Electrogenic pump

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Pump that creates a charge in balance

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Endocytosis

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Type of active transport that moves substances including fluids and particles into a cell

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Facilitated transport

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Process by which material moves down a concentration gradient from high to low concentration using integral membrane proteins

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Fluid mosaic model

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Describe the plasma membrane structure as a mosaic of components including phospholipids cholesterol proteins glycoproteins and glycolipids resulting in fluid character

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Glycolipid

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Combination of carbohydrates and lipids

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Glycoprotein

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Combination of carbohydrates and proteins

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Hydrophilic

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Molecule with the ability to bond with water water loving

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Hydrophobic

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Molecule that does not have the ability to bond with water water hating

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Hypertonic

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Situation in which extra cellular fluid has a higher osmolarity then the fluid inside the cell resulting in water moving out of this app

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Hypotonic

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Situation in which extra cellular fluid has a lower osmolarity than the fluid inside the cell resulting in water moving into the cell

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Integral protein

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Protein integrated into the membrane Structure that interacts extensively with the membrane lipids hydrocarbon chains and often spans the membrane

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Osmolarity

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Total amount of substance is dissolved in a specific amount of solution

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Osmosis

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Transport of water through a semi permeable membrane according to the waters concentration gradient across the membrane that results from the presence of solute that cannot pass through the membrane

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Passive transport
Method of transporting materials the membrane that does not require energy
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Peripheral proteins
Protein at the plasma membrane surface either on its exterior or interior side
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Pinocytosis
A variation of endocytosis that imports macromolecules that the cell needs from the extracellular fluid
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Plasmolysis
Detaching the cell membrane from the cell wall in constructing the cell membrane when I plant cell is in a hypertonic solution
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Potocytosis
Variation of pinocytosis that uses a different coating proteins Caveolin on the plasma membrane cytoplasmic side
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Primary active transport
Active transport that moves ions or small molecules across the membrane and may create a difference in Change across the membrane
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Pump
Active transport mechanism that works against electrochemical gradient
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Receptor mediated endocytosis
Variation of endocytosis that involves using specific binding proteins in the plasma membrane for specific molecules or particles and clathrin coated pits that become clathrin coated vesicles
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Secondary active transport
Movement of material that result from primary active transport to the electrochemical gradient
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Selectively permeable
Membrane characteristic that allows some substances through
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Solute
Substance dissolved in a liquid to form a solution
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Symporter
Transporter that carries two different ions or a small molecules both in the same direction
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Tonicity
Amount of solute in a solution
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Transport proteins
Membrane protein that facilitates the substances passage across a membrane by binding it
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Transporter
Specific carrier proteins or pumps that facilitate movement
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Uniporter
Transporter that carries one specific ion or molecule