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The diffusion of water through a .... is known as osmosis?
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semi-permeable membrane
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Diffusion of water through a semi-permeable membrane.
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osmosis
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What is Turgor pressure ?
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The pressure exerted on the cell wall
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Passive transport doesn't require...to transport things?
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Energy
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Facilitated diffusion is what kind of transport through a cell?
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Active
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What function does a carrier protein have?
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used to transport items through a membrane
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Cytolysis is...
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Over filing the cell until is bursts
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Plasmolysis occurs when...
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cells shrink ans turgor pressure is lost
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A small passage way that transports ions from high to low is what?
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A ion channel
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What is a vesicle?
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a sack for transporting substances
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Exocytosis is...
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The process of which a substance contained in a vesicle is released from the cell
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Transport that requires energy is...
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active transport
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what is pinocytosis?
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taking fluid in during endocytosis
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what is phagocytosis?
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taking in organisms during endocytosis
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what is being hypotonic?
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Having a low osmotic pressure
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Hypertonic is.....
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having a higher osmotic pressure
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isotonic is......
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having a equal osmotic pressure
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When something is spread evenly it reached.....
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equilibrium
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Diffusion is...
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the movement of a substance
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Exocytosis is....
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materials are exported out of the cell by a vesicle
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what is endocytosis?
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when things are brought inside the cell
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