4925991286 | Extracellular fluid, Interstitial Fluid, Matrix | Fluid on the outside of a cell. | ![]() | 0 |
4925991287 | Intracellular fluid (cytoplasm) | Fluid on the inside of the cell. | ![]() | 1 |
4925991288 | Hydrophilic head of a phospholipid | loves water | ![]() | 2 |
4925991289 | Hydrophobic tail of a phospholipid | hates water | ![]() | 3 |
4925991290 | Cholesterol | Creates pores for the cell membrane. | ![]() | 4 |
4925991292 | Passive Transport | Diffusion, osmosis, facilitated diffusion | ![]() | 5 |
4926311439 | Type of energy used in Passive Transport | None | ![]() | 6 |
4925991293 | Diffusion | Movement of a substance from a HIGH to a LOW concentration | ![]() | 7 |
4925991294 | Urea, Oxygen, Water and Carbon Dioxide | Substances that diffuse across the plasma membrane | ![]() | 8 |
4925991295 | Osmosis | The diffusion of water across a membrane | ![]() | 9 |
4994176655 | Hypertonic & Hypotonic | Solutions that will cause osmosis | 10 | |
4925991296 | Crenate | Shrinking of cell | ![]() | 11 |
4925991297 | Hypertonic solution | Causes a cell to crenate | ![]() | 12 |
4925991298 | Cytolysis | Swelling of a cell | ![]() | 13 |
4925991299 | Hypotonic solution | Causes a cell to swell | ![]() | 14 |
4925991300 | Peripheral Proteins | On the surface of a plasma membrane | ![]() | 15 |
4925991301 | Integral proteins | Found IN the membrane and create channels | ![]() | 16 |
4925991302 | facilitated diffusion | Use of an integral protein to move a molecule from a high concentration to a low concentration across a membrane with out energy (ex. Glucose) | ![]() | 17 |
4925991303 | active transport | uses cell energy (ATP) to pull molecules from low to high concentration | ![]() | 18 |
4925991304 | resting membrane potential | extracellular positive charge while muscle and nerve cell are resting | ![]() | 19 |
4925991305 | depolarized | extracellular negative charge while muscle and nerve cells are 'working' | ![]() | 20 |
4925991306 | bulk transport | needs energy (ATP) and is used for substances that are too large to pass through the lipid bilayer or a protein channel | ![]() | 21 |
4925991307 | cystic fibrosis | an inherited disease which forms abnormal Cl- Pumps | ![]() | 22 |
4925991308 | 2 types of bulk transport | endocytosis and exocytosis | ![]() | 23 |
4994171037 | 2 Types of endocytosis | phagocytosis and pinocytosis | 24 | |
4925991309 | phagocytosis | cell eating | ![]() | 25 |
4925991310 | pinocytosis | cell takes in liquid | ![]() | 26 |
4925991311 | exocytosis | opposite of endocytosis and secretes substances out of the cell | ![]() | 27 |
4925991312 | glycoprotein | sugar chain attached to a protein | ![]() | 28 |
4925991313 | Glycoprotein function | Anchors cells/cell to cell recognition | ![]() | 29 |
Plasma Membrane (Cell Membrane) Flashcards
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