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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What does hyptonic mean? | lower concentration |
| what does hypertonic mean? | higher oncentration |
| what is a cell membrane? | thin flexible barrier; separates cell from surroundings |
| what is a cell wall? | supporting layer arond the membrane |
| what is a Lipid Bilayer? | gives cell membranes a flexible structure that froms a barrier |
| what is equilibrium? | concentration of the solute is the same throughout a system |
| what is osmosis? | the diffusion of water through a selectivelypermeable membrane |
| What is the difference between osmosis and diffusion? | Osmosis is diffusion, just through a selectively permeable membrane (cell membrane) |
| what does exocytosis mean? | things exiting the cell |
| what does isotonic mean? | concentration of water & sugar on both sides of membrane |
| what does diffusion mean? | particles move from an area of high concentration to low |
| what does endocyctosis mean? | things entering the cell? |
| what does a protein channel do? | it allows specific molecules to move across the cell membrane? |
| active transport requires what? | energy |
| phagocytosis means what? | to eat:movement of food |
| pinocyctosis means what? | to drink: movement of liquids |