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Cells and cell boundaries
Things about cell boundaries
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Biology
9th Grade
02/18/2010

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Were does the cell wall lie?
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Outside the cell membrane
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In what organisms can cell walls be found?
Definition
Plants, algae, fungi, and many diffrent prokaryotes.
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What is the main function of the cell wall?
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To provide support and protection for the cell.
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What is diffusion?
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When particals tend to move from an area where they are more concentrated to an area where they are less concentrated.
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What does it mean when a system has reached equilibrium?
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The concentration of salute is the same through out the system.
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What is osmosis?
Definition
The diffusion of water through a selectively permeamble membrane.
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If the solution is above strength in the solute what is it called?
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It is hypertonic.
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When is a solution hypotonic?
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When the solution is below strength in the solute.
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What does it mean when two solutions are isotonic?
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The solutions are the same strength.
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What is phagocytosis?
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The process of takeing material into the cell by means of infolding, or pockets of the cell membrane.
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Name several types of active transport.
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Endocytosis, Phagocytosis, and Exocytosis.
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What is the role of protein channels in the cell membrane?
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They are used to move things, like passageways.
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What is happens during the the process of facilitated diffusion?
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Molecules such as glucose that cant be diffused across the cell membranes lipid bilayer on there own move through protein channels instead.
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What is endocytosis?
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The takeing of bulky matirials into the cell.
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What is a protien pump?
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The transport of protins that requrie energy to do work. (ex.sodium/potassiom)
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Does active transport need energy and protiens?
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Yes,
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What determines the rate of diffusion?
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The steapness of the concentration gradient, tempereature, surface area, and type of molucoule.
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