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Passive Transport Processes
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Do not require and energy (ATP) expenditure of the cell membrane. |
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Molecules move from an area of: |
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an high concentration to an area of low concentration, down a concentration gradient. |
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a state of equililbrium will occur |
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Molecules cross through the phospholipid bilayer |
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Diffusion of water through a selectively permeable membrane; limits diffusion of at least some of the solute particles |
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water pressure that develops as a result of osmosis |
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Potential Osmotic Pressure |
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The maximum pressure that could develop in a solution when it is separated from pure water by a selectively permeable membrane |
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describes a fluid having the same potential osmotic pressure as cytosol |
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Higher pressure
cells placed in sloutions that are hypertonic always shrivel as water flows out of them |
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lower pressure
cells placed in a hypotonic slotuin may swell as water flows into them |
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Facilitated Diffusion
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energy required comes from the collision energy of the solute (no metabolic energy needed ATP) |
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Channel Mediated Passive Transport |
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Channels are specific-allow only one type of solute to pass through. |
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may be open or closed or inactive may be triggered by any of a variety of stimuli |
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Channels allow membranes to |
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Are water channels that permit rapid osmosis |
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Carrier Mediated Passive Transport |
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Carriers attract and bind to the solute, change shape, and release the solute out the other side of the carrier |
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Reversible depending on the directions of the concentration gradient |
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Role of passive transport processes |
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Move substances down their concentration gradient, thus maintaining equilibrium-and homeostatice balance |
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Types of passive transport: |
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Simple and facilitated diffusion (channels and carriers) |
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A special example of channel mediated passive tranport of water |
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Pumps are membrane transporters that move a substance against their concentration gradient-opposite of diffusion |
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calcium pumps and sodium potassium pumps |
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Allows substances to enter or leave the interior of cell without actually moving through its plasma membrane |
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The plasma membrane "traps" some extracellular material and brings it into the cell in a vesicle |
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Two basic types of endocytosis |
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Phagocytosis and pinocytosis |
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"Condition of cell eating" large particles are engulfed by the plasma membrane and enter the cell in vesicles; the vesicles fuse with lyosomes, which digest the particles |
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"Condition of cell drinking" fluid and the substances dissolved in it enter the cell |
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Receptor mediated endocytosis |
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membrane recpetor molcules recongnize substances to be brought into the cell |
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Process by which large molecules, notably proteins, can leave the cell even though they are too large to move out through the plasma membrane. |
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Large molecules are enclosed in membranous vesicles and then |
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pulled to the plasma membrane by the cytoskeleton, where the contents are released |
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Exocytosis also provides a way for |
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new material to be added to the plasma membrane |
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Role of active transport processes |
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requires energy by the membrane; pumps-concentrate substances on one side of membrane, as when storing an ion inside an organelle |
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Vesicle mediated
(endocytosis, exocytosis) |
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move large volumes of substances at once, as in secretion of hormones and neurotransmitters |
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chemical reactions in a cell |
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Breaks large molecules into smaller ones; usually releases energy |
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Builds large molecules from smaller ones; usually consumes energy |
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Enzymes are chemical catalysts that reduce the activation energy needed for a reaction. Enzymes regulate cell metabolism. |
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Proteins of a complex shape. The active site is where the enzyme molecule fits the substrate molecule-the lock and key model. |
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Enzymes usually have an -ase ending |
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with the first part of the word signifying the substrate or the type of reaction catalyzed |
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Enzymes regulate cell functions by |
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regulating metabolic pathways |
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Various chemical and physical agents known as allosteric effectors affect enzyme action by |
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changing the shape of the enzyme molecule |
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Allosteric effectors include |
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Temp, hydrogen ion H+ concentration (pH), ionizing radiation, cofactors, end products of certain metabolic pathways |
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Most enzymes catalyze a chemical reaction in |
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Enzymes are continually being destroyed and |
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continually being replaced |
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Most enzymes are first synthesized as |
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Cellular respiration, the pathway by which glucose is broken down to yield its stored energy |
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is an important example of cell catabolism |
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Cellular respiration has three pathways that are chemically linked |
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Glycolysis, citric acid cycle, electron transport system. |
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Citric Acid Cycle (Krebs Cycle) Pyruvic acid (from glycolysis) is converted into |
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acetyl CoA and enters the citric acid cycle after losing CO2 and transferring some energy to NADH |
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Citric acid cycle is a repeating cyclic sequence of reactions that occur inside the inner chamber of the mitochondrion; acetyl splits from |
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CoA and is broken down to yield waste CO2 and energy (in form of energized electrons) which is tranferred to ATP, NADH, and FADH2 |
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Electron transport system ETS |
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Energized electrons are carried by NADH and FADH2 from glycolysis and the citric acid cycle to electron acceptors embedded in the cristae of the mitochondrion |
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As electrons are shuttled along a chain of electom accepting molecules in the cristae, their energy is used to pump accompanying protons H+ into the spaces between mitochondrial membranes |
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ETS: protons flow back into the inner chamber through pump molecules in the cristae, |
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and their energy of movment is transferred to ATP |
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Low-energy electrons coming off the ETS bind to |
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oxygen and rejoin their protons to form water |
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