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Plasma Membrane Fill In The Blanks

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Question: What does a cells plasma membrane of?Answer: A bi-layer with proteins embedded throughout
Question: What is a bi-layer?Answer: A bi-layer refers to a phosphate anion head which is polar/hydrophilic and 2 lipid tails which are non-polar/hydrophobic
Question: What is a protein called that spans across the entire phospholipid bilayer plasma ?Answer: An protein or an integral protein
Question: What is a called that exists on the outer parts of the phospholipid bilayer plasma mebrane?Answer: An extrinsic protein or a peripheral
Question: What is the name of the of the phospholipids and proteins within the plasma membrane?Answer: The Fluid Mosaic Model (referring to the fact that the phospholipids move about freely along the membrane in a fluid like fashion and the are fixed with limited mobility, creating an intuitive image similar to a mosaic)
Question: What is the difference between permeable and ?Answer: Semipermeable means only certain molecules are able to pass (usually referring to a membrane) while permeable means anything can pass through
Question: Is a cells plasma membrane or semipermeable?Answer:
Question: What kind of particles can easily pass a cells plasma membrane?Answer: Small uncharged
Question: What kind of particles cannot pass a cells plasma membrane?Answer: Highly charged or very big particles (unless they are aided by something that spans the such as a receptor protein)
Question: What are the two ways in molecules can pass through a membrane?Answer: Diffusion or transport
Question: How can the rate of a diffusion into the cell be measured?Answer: By comparing it to changes in that gradient (gradient referring to the differences in concentrations on both sides of the membrane)
Question: What does it mean to the gradient?Answer: To increase the gradient means to the difference in concentrations on both sides of the membrane
Question: What does it mean when "moves along it's gradient"?Answer: To move the gradient is to move from high concentration to low concentration
Question: What does it mean when something "moves it's gradient"?Answer: To move against the gradient is to move from low concentration to high
Question: If a graph of the gradient vs the rate of a to cross a membrane reaches a point where increasing the gradient no longer increases the rate of crossing, what does this signify?Answer: This signifies that the molecule is crossing via facilitated because there is a limiting factor in the form of something such as a protein/receptor
Question: At the on a facilitated diffusion graph where the curve levels out, what do you know about the protein/receptor that was assisting in crossing the membrane?Answer: You know that it has saturated, meaning it is working at the maximum capacity and cannot work faster regardless of increases in the gradient
Question: What is transport?Answer: Facilitated transport refers to the case where there is something assisting a to cross the membrane along it's gradient (from high concentration to low concentration)
Question: What is transport?Answer: Active transport refers to the case where there is something assisting a molecule to cross the membrane against it's gradient (from low concentration to high )
Question: What is the difference between facilitated and active transport?Answer: Facilitated transport refers to the assisting of a molecule to cross a membrane along it's gradient while active refers to the assisting of a molecule to cross a membrane against it's gradient
Question: Does Transport require energy and why or why not?Answer: Yes, Active Transport requires energy (ATP) because it opposes the natural flow of along their gradient
Question: Does Facilitated Transport require and why or why not?Answer: No, Facilitated Transport does not require energy because it goes along with the natural flow particles along their
Question: What are the two of carrier mediated transport systems?Answer: Transport and Facilitated Transport
Question: Name of the following that exhibits saturation kinetics: Active Transport or Facilitated TransportAnswer:
Question: What is the most popular protein receptor in the membrane that uses Active Transport?Answer: Sodium Potassium pump
Question: Name the two ways can enter or exit a cell other than through carrier mediated transport systemsAnswer: Endocytosis and
Question: What is ?Answer: Endocytosis is when the plasma membrane invaginates and breaks off in a fashion that allows things to enter the cell ("cytosis" can be remembered as eating")
Question: What is ?Answer: Exocytosis is when the membrane invaginates and breaks off in a fashion that allows things to exit the cell ("cytosis" can be remembered as "cell eating")
Question: What is ?Answer: Phagocytosis is a special case of endocytosis which mainly occurs when white blood want to remove pathogens, bacteria, or debris
Question: the process of phagocytosis.Answer: The cell eats something (usually a pathogen/bacteria), the thing eaten is then inside the cell surrounded by a membrane bubble which is then fused with lysosomes that release their contents and digest everything in the bubble making a phagolysosome
Question: How many bi-layers surround the mitochondria (describe)Answer: 2: The membrane is arranged in shelf-like folds referred to as cristae
Question: How many bi-layers surround the nucleus (describe)Answer: 2: These two membranes have pores in them nuclear pores
 
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