Membrane Composition
The quality of the inside of the phospholipid bilayer that contributes to its selective permeability.
What is hydrophobic?
The factor that determines the movement of water across a selectively permeable membrane.
What is solute concentration?
The method cells use to intake large molecules.
What is endocytosis?
The major structure involved in lipid synthesis.
What is smooth Endoplasmic Reticulum?
The type of bond that involves electron sharing.
What is covalent?
The molecule that keeps cell membranes stable in extreme temperatures.
What is cholesterol?
The characteristic of a cell when the solute concentration inside the cell is the same as outside the cell.
The type of transport that uses proteins to move molecules from high to low concentration.
What is facilitated diffusion?
The two types of organelles that are able to reproduce independently of the cell.
What are chloroplasts and mitochondria?
The level of protein structure that involves alpha helices and beta sheets.
What is secondary structure?
The "tagged" molecules that identify the cell.
What are glycoproteins and glycolipids?
The result of increasing the concentration of solute in a hypertonic cell.
What is faster water uptake?
The type of transport in which molecules are moved against a concentration gradient, but ATP is not directly used.
What is secondary active transport?
The membrane-bound organelle that detoxifies H2O2.
What is a peroxisome?
The only type of non-polymerized biological macromolecule.
What are lipids?
The dense cholesterol-containing units that function in cell signaling.
What are lipid rafts?
The structure that prevents plant cells from bursting in hypotonic solutions.
What is the cell wall?
The characteristic that makes uniporters different than symporters or antiporters.
What is passive transport?
The membrane-bound organelle that provides structure and storage for plant cells.
What is the central vacuole?
The animal version of starch.
What is glycogen?
What are sphingolipids?
The quality that makes IV bags filled with pure water dangerous.
What is hypotonic?
The ions involved in the Sodium Potassium pump.
What are 3 Na+ and 2 K+?
The location of prokaryote's DNA.
What are pyrimidines?