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Word Roots Quiz Ch. 7 Flashcards

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Amphi

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Dual

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Aqua

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Water

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Pori

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A small opening

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Co

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Together

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Trans

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Across

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Electro

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Electricity

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-genic

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Producing

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Endo

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Inner

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Cyto

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Cell

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Exo

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Outer

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Hyper

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Exceeding

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-tonus

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Tension

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Hypo

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Lower

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Iso

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Same

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Phago

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eat

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Pino

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Drink

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Plasm

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Molded

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-lyso

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Loosen

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Amphipathic molecule

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A molecule that has both a hydrophobic and a hydrophilic region

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Aquaporin

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A transport protein in the plasma membrane of a plant or animal cell that specifically facilitates the diffusion of water across the membrane

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Cotransport

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The coupling of the “downhill” diffusion of one substance to the “uphill” transport of another against its own concentration gradient

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Electrogenic pump

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An ion transport protein generating voltage across a membrane

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Endocytosis

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The movement of materials into a cell; cell eating

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Exocytosis

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The movement of materials out of a cell

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Hypertonic

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A solution with a higher concentration of solutes

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Hypotonic

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A solution with a lower concentration of solutes

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Isotonic

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Solutions with equal concentrations of solutes

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Phagocytosis

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Cell eating

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Pintcytosis

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Cell drinking

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Plasmolysis

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A phenomenon in walled cells in which cytoplasm shrivels and the plasma membrane pulls away from the cell wall when the cell loses water to a hypertonic environment

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