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What is the boundary between the cell and its environment and is a phospholipid bilayer? |
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What is the process of maintaining the cell's environment? |
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What is the transport of material that does not require energy |
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Materials move from an area of higher concentration to an area of lower concetration |
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What is diffusion in cells? |
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carbon dioxide and oxygen diffuse across the cell membrane |
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What is the movement of water across a selectively permeable membrane? |
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What is the movement of water across a selectively permeable membrane? |
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What are the types of solutions? |
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isotonic, hypotonic, and hypertonic |
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What has the same percentage of water inside the cell and outside of the cell? ("equal") |
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In what is the percentage of water outside higher than the percentage of water inside? (cell walls swell) |
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What are hypertonic solutions? |
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percentage of water in is higher than out, water moves around the cell, and the cell shrinks |
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plant cell loses water and the plant wilts |
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What is Facilitated Diffusion? |
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Another type of passive transport (high to low), movement of these molecules is assisted by carrier proteins |
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What is movement of material that requires energy? |
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What is an example of active transport in animal cells and moves sodium out of the cell and potassium into the cell? |
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What moves material into the cell? |
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move fluids into the cell |
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move large particles or whole cells |
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How do some unicellular organisms benefit by phagocytosis? |
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What is the process by which a substance is released from the cell? |
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