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Cell membrane and cell transport
Cell membrane and cell transport
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Biology
Intermediate
11/10/2017

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What is Homeostasis?
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A stable internal envirement
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What does it mean that the head is "Polar"?
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It means that it likes water
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What does it mean that the tails are "nonpolar"?
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It means that thy dont like water
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What kind of molecules can pass easily through the phospholipid bilayer?
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Small nonploar molecules like oxygen gas
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What two molecules can easily pas through the phosplilipid bilayer (cell membrane)?
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Carbon Dioxide and Oxygen
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How do molecules in a cell move?
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In simple diffusion, molecules move from
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High Concentration to Low concentration
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Diffusion is a type of
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Passive transport that does not require
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What do eukaryotic cells have that prokaryotic cells don't have
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Membrane bound organelles
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What type of cells have a cell memebrane
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all living cells
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In simple diffusion,cells move from...
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High concentration to low concentration
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what do you think "Transport cells" are and do in the cell membrane
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They transport stuff throughout the cell
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What is the job of the transport
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Their job is to transport important stuff around the cell
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In facilitated diffusion, large molecules cannot pass across the cell membrane without the help of
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protiens
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Why is facilitated diffusion a type of passive transport
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Because it still moves with the concentration hydrant of High to Low
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______ doesn't require a transport protein to cross the cell membrane
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Simple diffusion
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