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the passive transport mechanism in which small solutes and water are pushed across a membrane from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure
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Filtration
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fluid mosaic model of the plasma membrane
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the plasma membrane consists of a bilayer of phospholipids with proteins and cholesterol interspersed.
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the specialization of the plasma membrane that acts to form mechanical links between adjacent cells such that cells are held together in a sheet
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desmosomes
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cells would swell and burst if put into a
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hypotonic solution
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glucose is relatively large water soluble molecule that cannot pass directly through the lipids of the plasma membrane. therefore if glucose moves down its concentrationgradient into a cell it must do so by
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Facilitation diffusion
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the active transport mechanism in which material within a vesicle is released from the cell
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exocytosis
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the membranous canal system within the cytoplasm that functions to either to synthesis lipids or detoxify harmful substances or store calcium ions
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smooth endoplasmic reticulum
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certain white blood cells protect the body by phagocytizing bacteria and then digesting these bacteria, such blood cells would have numerous
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lysosomes
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glandular cells secrete substances and tend to have abundant
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golgi apperatus
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ribosomal RNA and ribosomal proteins are assembled to form ribosomes within the
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nucleolus of the nucleus
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