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Isotonic physiol (of two or more muscles) having equal tension
Diffusion The process of movement of a substance (solid, liquid, or gas) from the region of higher concentration to the region of lower concentration so as to spread uniformly
Membrane pump transmembrane proteins that actively move ions and/or solutes against a concentration or electrochemical gradient across biological membranes.
Facilitated diffusion the diffusion of solutes through transport proteins in the plasma membrane.
Exocytosis fusion of secretory vesicles with the plasma membrane
Endocytosis the ingestion of large particles (such as bacteria) and the uptake of fluids or macromolecules in small vesicles.
Hypertonic having a higher osmotic pressure than a particular fluid, typically a body fluid or intracellular fluid.
Osmosis Osmosis is the spontaneous net movement or diffusion of solvent molecules through a selectively-permeable membrane from a region of high water potential to a region of low water potential.
concentration graident an important process for understanding how particles and ions move in random motion in a solution or gas.
active transport a process that involves the movement of molecules from a region of lower concentration to a region of higher concentration against a gradient or an obstacle with the use of external energy.”
autotroph an organism that is able to form nutritional organic substances from simple inorganic substances such as carbon dioxide.
trophic level The trophic level of an organism is the position it occupies in a food web
biomass renewable organic material that comes from plants and animals.
matter any substance that has mass and takes up space by having volume.
10% pure Pure substances always have chemical formulae. Here are some examples of pure substances:
heterotroph A heterotroph is an organism that cannot produce its own food, instead taking nutrition from other sources of organic carbon, mainly plant or animal matter.
food chain A food chain is a linear network of links in a food web, often starting with an autotroph, also called a producer, and typically ending at an apex predator, detritivore, or decomposer.
food web of all the food chains in a single ecosystem.
energy pyramid is a graphical representation of the energy found within the trophic levels of an ecosystem.
producer Producers are organisms that make their own food
mitochondria A mitochondrion is an organelle found in the cells of most eukaryotes, such as animals, plants and fungi.
vacuole A vacuole is a membrane-bound organelle which is present in plant and fungal cells and some protist, animal, and bacterial cells.
lysosome membrane-enclosed organelles that contain an array of enzymes capable of breaking down all types of biological polymers—proteins, nucleic acids, carbohydrates, and lipids.
endoplasmic reticulum a large, dynamic structure that serves many roles in the cell including calcium storage, protein synthesis and lipid metabolism.
lipid envelope allows enveloped viruses to bud out of cells without disrupting the cell membrane
cytoskeleton The cytoskeleton is a structure that helps cells maintain their shape and internal organization,
prokaryote Prokaryotes are organisms whose cells lack a nucleus and other organelles.
eukaryote Eukaryotes are organisms whose cells contain a nucleus and other membrane-bound organelles.
ribosome . A ribosome is an intercellular structure made of both RNA and protein, and it is the site of protein synthesis in the cell.
golgi apparatus is a cell organelle that helps process and package proteins and lipid molecules, especially proteins destined to be exported from the cell.
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