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all organisms exist in either ______ or ________ form |
unicellular or multicellular |
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what do all organisms carry out
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the functions of life |
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what is the first postulate of cell theory |
all organisms are compose of one or more cells
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What is the second postulate of cell theory |
cells are the smallest form of life |
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what is the third postulate of cell theory |
all cells come from pre-existing cells |
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what did Robert Hooke invent in 1665, what did he observe and what did he coin |
the microscope, cork cells, cell |
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what did anton van leuvenhoek observe in 1670 |
living animalcules |
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in 1838 what did Martias Schlseiden state? |
plants made of up of independent beings called cells |
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what did Theodor Schwann state in 1839 |
all animals are up of cells |
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what did louis pasteur disprove in 1860 |
spontaneous generation theory. |
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What is the metabolism function of life |
reactions within the body (cellular respiration) |
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What is the growth function of life |
repair, replacement |
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What is the reproduction function of life |
DNA passed onto offspring |
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what is the Irritability function of life |
response to stimuli |
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what is the homeostasis function of life |
maintenance of constant internal conditions e.g. body temperature |
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what is the nutrition function of life |
ingestion, digestion, aspiration, and the utilization of nutrients to maintain life |
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what the order of relative sizes: |
subatomic particles, atoms, molecules, thickness of the cell membrane, virus, bacteria, eukaryotic organelles, cells, tissues, organs, organisms |
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what is the formula for surface area for the limits to cell size |
4πr^2 (four pi times radius to the power two) |
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what is the formula for volume for the limits to cell size |
4/3 πr^3 (four thirds pi times radius to the power of three) |
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what is the SA:V ration formula |
3/r |
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How may the cell modify this SA:V ratio |
increasing in length (nerve cell) or invaginating (microvilli) |
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How do multicellular organism begin life |
as a single cell (zygote) after sexual reproduction |
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What follows being a single cell zygote |
Mitotic division follows creating a cluster of identical cells, each having identical DNA |
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When does differentiation begin |
when certain genes (DNA segments) are expressed while others are suppressed |
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what happens after specialization |
some cells retain the ability to reproduce like cells (e.g. skin) while others are greatly limited (e.g. neurones) |
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stem cells retain the ability and differentiate what are the 4 types |
uni potent multipotent plury potent- body cells toti potent- placenta and umbilical chord |
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stem cells in plants |
meristematic tissue in stem and root |
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stem cells in animals |
embryonic cells are called pluripotent tips. Human stem cells are the basis of therapeutic cloning technics. |
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How could therapeutic cloning help parkinson's and Altzehiemer's patients |
they are result of loss of brain cells; stem cells are implanted to replace lost brain cells |
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what happens when a cell ages |
Telemeters get shorter as the cell ages until it frays and goes away |
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what does Canadian law prohibit |
creation of embryos for research. This includes somatic cell nuclear transfer or human therapeutic cloning |
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What could happen in human therapeutic cloning was legal |
licensed researchers would be allowed to substitute DNA for the nucleus of an ehh the resulting embryo would contain stem cells- capable of turning into brain, liver cells etc. Being able to cure Alzheimer's, parkinson's, cancer, spinal chord injuries. |
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how is a day old embryo described, and why is the risk of of rejection lowered. |
only potentially human, no nervous system or conciseness merely a group of un-different cells. it is lowered because the DNA would be the donors own |
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How does the government hope to further research with stem cells obtained from: |
adult humans embryos left over from fertilization clinics tissue of aborted foetuses |
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What two kingdoms did Aristotle think existed |
plantae & amialia |
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what are the classifications for all species |
kingdom (kpcofgs) phylum class order family genus species |
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who and when was the microscope invented, what did he discover |
leeuwenhoek, 17th century, an entire world of micro organisms |
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what kingdom was proposed in 1806 and by who |
ernst heckt Protista (single cell organisms) |
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What is the forth kingdom |
Fungi, absorb food materials |
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what is the 5th kingdom |
baterica (prokaryote, monera, eubacteria) |
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what is the 6th kingdom |
Archaea (Bacteria that survive in the harshest environment) |
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What do eukaryotes have, that prokaryotes do not |
A cell nucleus |
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What kingdom belongs in the prokaryotes and which in the eukaryotes |
bacteria and archaea, in eukaryotes protists, plants, fungi, animals. |
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what is the size of prokaryotes then eukaryotes |
small (1-100μm), large (100-1000μm) |
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prokaryotes have ______ DNA, and eukaryotes have what type of DNA. |
Circular DNA, and DNA with nuclear membrane |
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What type of genome do prokaryotes have |
single chromosome in nucloid region |
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what type of genome do eukaryotes have |
several chromosomes in membrane bound nucleus |
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What are eukaryote cells divided by which don't divide prokaryotes |
mitosis, and meiosis |
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what type of reproduction do prokaryotes carry out, then eukaryotes |
asexual, sexual |
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Prokaryotes are rarely______, but most forms of _______ are multi cellular |
multicellular, eukaryotes |
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Prokaryotes have no __________ organelles, and eukaryotes have ________ |
membrane bound, mitochondria |
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Many prokaryotes are _________ and most eukaryotes are _________ (starts with an a) |
anaerobic, aerobic |
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the cell wall in prokaryotes is __________ and the cell wall in eukaryotes is _________ |
peptidoglycan, cellulose |
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Both types of cells have a _______ membrane |
plasma |
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in both there is a flagella for ________ |
motility |
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In both the ribsome is the site of _________ |
protein synthesis |
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How old is Archaea bacteria? |
may have been the first life. forms 3.5 bya |
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Where do methogens live? what is there source of energy? |
oxygen free environment (swamp), CO2, N2, H2S and they produce methane as waste |
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What are Halophiles and where do they live? |
saltlovers, live in 15% saline environments |
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What are thermoacidphiles, and where do they live? |
heat and acid lovers, live in hot (80c) acidic environments like sulphur springs and deep sea vents. using S ad an energy source. |
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what is biotechnology? |
enzymes required for medical and industrial research |
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Archaea enzymes withstand ___________, they can be used for what type of editing. |
extreme conditions, DNA. |
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what are all the shapes of kingdom bacteria? |
cocci (shperical) Bacilli (rod-shaped) Spirilli (spiral shaped) |
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what are the different patterns of prokaryotes? |
diplo (pairs), statylo (clusters), strepto (chain) |
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What is a gram positive cell wall structure |
thick protein wall; stain purple |
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what is a gram negative cell wall structure |
thick protein layer; stain pink |
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energy sources can be either_______ or _______ |
autotrophic, heterotrophic |
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What type of light, and inorganic compounds (prokaryotes) |
photosynthetic, chemosynthetic |
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What is aerobic |
metabolize water and oxygen |
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what is obligate anaerobic |
die if exposed to oxygen |
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what are facultative anaerobes |
grow in presence or absence of 02 |
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what are saptorophs |
feed on dead organic matter |
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what is asexual cell reproduction |
divide by binary fission |
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what is sexual cell reproduction (conjugation) |
cells link via pili and transfer all or part of their chromosomes or plasmids (small loops of DNA) |
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what are plasmids used for |
used in recombination and cloning techniques |
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explain spore formation |
the life cycle may include a dormant phase in which bacteria are able to survive unfavourable enviroment |
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(eukaryotes) describe the cytoplasm organelle |
organelles occur in the cytoplasm or cytosol of the cell bound by the plasma membrane |
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describe endoplasmic reticulum |
network of transportation tubules from nuclear membrane to plasma membrane |
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Smooth ER enzymes functions in: |
produce phospholipids and lipids production of steroid based hormones detoxification of poisons in the liver storage of calcium ions in muscles cells glycogenesis in liver |
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rough ER enzymes has ribosomes on its _________ therefore functions in _________ and ________ |
ribosomes, protein synetesis and transport |
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what are ribosomes composed of |
2 subunits of DNA and protein. Eukaryotic larger than prokaryotic 80s vs 70s |
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what are lysosomes? what are they used for |
vesicles of hydrolytic digestive enzymes, digestion of food and destruction of workout organelles or cells |
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what is a golgi apparatus and what is its function |
flattened sacs, collection packaging, modification, distribution of substances into vesicles (from cis to trans side) |
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who proposed that mitochondria may originated as bacterial cells that became symbiotic with primitive eukaryotic cells based on characteristics |
lynn margulis |
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describe mitochondria characteristics |
rod-shaped, similar size to bacteria, possess own DNA hard double membrane, posses own 70s ribosomes. |
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describe mitochondria membrane and function |
has double membrane, folded inner membrane. (cristae); matrix inside inner membrane. Functions in ATP production-----> powerhouse of cell |
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describe the nucleus |
bound by double membrane (nuclear envelope) contains chromosomes-> during interphase in form of chromatin (DNA and histones coiled as nucleosome) chromosomes made on tightly coiled nucleosomes become visible during mitosis nucleolus functions in DNA production |
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Chloroplasts are on of three types of _______ found only in ____ cells |
plastids, plant (chromo, amylo) |
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Describe characteristics of chloroplasts and where they may have come from |
chloroplasts may have originate as cyanobacteria. double membrane, own circular DNA, 70s ribosomes. |
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what do chloroplasts contain |
geranium which absorb light and embedded in cytosol-like stroma |
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what is a centrosome |
pair of centrioles at 180 degrees to each other found in animal cells |
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microtubules are used for construction of |
cytoskeleton, spindle fibres for mitosis, flagela, cilia |
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what is a vacuole |
membrane-bound storage organelles formed by golgi apperatus |
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what do vacuoles store? |
food, toxins, metabolic waste, water |
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what is much larger in plant cells and aids in creating turgor pressure against cellulose and is based in the cell wall |
vacuoles |
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what stores a lot of starch |
vacuoles |
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what are some components of a cell wall? |
protection, support, rigid shape |
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what is an animal cell matrix composed of |
collagen and glycoproteins used for attachment to other cells or cell product recognition, cell migration direction direction of stem cells etc. |
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what is bacterias extra cellular component (cell wall) |
peptidoglycan |
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what is fungus extra cellular component (cell wall) |
chitin-based |
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what is yeasts extra cellular component (cell wall) |
gluten and mannan |
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what is algae's extra cellular component (cell wall) |
cellulose |
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what is plant's extra cellular component (cell wall) |
cellulose |
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what is animals extra cellular component (cell wall) |
no cell wall; matrix secreted composed of glycoprotein |
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the activities of a living cell depends on the ability of its cell membrane to: |
-transport raw material into the cell -transports products and waste out of the cell -prevents the entry of unwanted matter into the cell -prevents the escape of the matter needed to perform the cellular functions |
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what did the electron microscope reveal? |
-the cell membrane is a bilayer made of phospholipids molecules -phosphate-glycerol head with 2 fatty acid rails -electric charge of molecule is unevenly distributed, forming polar head and non polar trail |
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what contains a mosaic of different components scattred throughout it (fluid mosaic model) |
cell membrane |
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what allows animal cell membranes to function in a wide range of temperatures; maintains rigidity at high T and fluid in low T |
cholesterol |
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what do proteins (integral and peripheral) do |
transport regocntion and binding sites channels, pimps, adhesion. |
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what must happen in order for the cell to function properly |
conditions within a cell must remain relatively constant |
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on both sides of the cell membrane water is _______ |
solvent |
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The actives of a living cell depend on the ability of it's cell membrane to: |
transport raw material into the cell transport products and waste out of the cell prevent the entry of unwanted matter into the cell prevent the escape of the matter needed to preform the cellular function |
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describe phosphate- glycerol |
head with two fatty acid tails |
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_________ charge of molecule is unevenly distributed forming polar ________ and non-polar ______ |
electric, head, tail |
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the head is __________ and the tail is _________ |
hydrophilic (water loving), hydrophobic |
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how do phospholipids arrange themselves |
through a combination of attraction and repulsion a film of phospholipids molecules spontaneously arrange themselves into a spherical, cage-like bilayer |
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water attracting polar heads face both the ________ and __________ while the non-polar lipid tails face _________ |
inside and outside, each other |
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the external environment of a protest (such as amoeba) contains: |
other organisms, decaying organic matter and dissolved gasses |
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what is every cell bathed in in a multicellular organism
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a layer f extra cellular fluid (ECF) also consisting of a variable mixture of water and dissolved materials |
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define semi-permeable membrane |
a membrane controlling what can enter and exit; materials move through the cell membrane passively or actively |
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what is a passively permeable membrane |
due to brownian motion, no energy is expanded by the cell. Diffusion is the moment of molecules from a region where there are more concentrated to where they are less concentrated. Large surface area relative to volume increase |
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what is osmosis |
the diffusion of water across a semi-permeable membrane. |
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what is a hyper osmotic solution |
a solution that has a high concentration of solutes than a hypo-osmotic solution therefore water moves from hypo to hyper-osmotic solutions |
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describe istomic, hypotonic, and hypertonic |
isotomic: movement in and out of a cell hypotonic: water moves into cell) hypertonic: water moves out of cell |
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what does facilitated diffusion allow |
diffusion of large molecules e.g. glucose |
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what do carrier proteins do |
change shape allowing passage |
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what do channel proteins do |
provide H20- filled passages from ions(aq) |
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what does an active semi-permeable membrane do |
maintain constant internal conditions, some materials must be transported up a concentration gradient, to concentrate nutrients for growth, remove toxic waste etc. |
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what must be kept different from the ECF |
intercellular environment |
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