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Cellular Transport

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Active Transport   Movement of molecules across a cell membrane. Uses energy.  
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Carrier Protien   Involved in the movement of ions, small molecules, or macromolecules, such as another protein, across a biological membrane.  
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Cell Membrane   The semipermeable membrane surrounding the cytoplasm of a cell.  
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Channel Protien   A protein that allows the transport of specific substances across a cell membrane.  
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Concentration Gradient   The process of particles, which are sometimes called solutes, moving through a solution or gas from an area of higher number of particles to an area of lower number of particles.  
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Diffusion   The process by which molecules intermingle as a result of their kinetic energy of random motion.  
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Endocytosis   A form of active transport in which a cell transports molecules into the cell by engulfing them in an energy-using process.  
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Exocytosis   A process in which an intracellular vesicle moves to the plasma membrane and subsequent fusion of the vesicular membrane and plasma membrane ensues.  
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Facilitated Transport   The process of spontaneous passive transport of molecules or ions across a biological membrane  
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Fluid-mosaic Membrane Model   Describes the plasma membrane of animal cells.  
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Glycolipid   Membrane components composed of lipids that are covalently bonded to monosaccharides or polysaccharides.  
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Glycoprotein   proteins that contain oligosaccharide chains covalently attached to polypeptide side-chains.  
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Hydrophilic   Water loving  
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Hydrophobic   Water fearing  
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Hypertonic   concentration of solutes is greater outside the cell than inside it..  
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Hypotonic   concentration of solutes is greater inside the cell than outside of it.  
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Isotonic   concentration of solutes is the same both inside and outside of the cell.  
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Osmosis   spontaneous net movement of solvent molecules through a semi-permeable membrane into a region of higher solute concentration  
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Passive Transport Processes   A form of transport by which no energy is required, includes diffusion and facilitated diffusion  
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Phagocytosis   the process by which a cell—often a phagocyte or a protist—engulfs a solid particle to form an internal vesicle known as a phagosome.  
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Phospholipid   a class of lipids that are a major component of all cell membranes.  
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Phospholipid Bilayer   a thin polar membrane made of two layers of lipid molecules.  
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Pinocytosis   a mode of endocytosis in which small particles are brought into the cell, forming an invagination, and then suspended within small vesicles.  
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Pressure Gradient   A physical quantity that describes which direction and at what rate the pressure changes the most rapidly around a particular location.  
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Selectively Permeable   A type of biological membrane that will allow certain molecules or ions to pass through it by diffusion and occasionally specialized "facilitated diffusion"  
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Tonicity   Measure of the effective osmotic pressure gradient of two solutions separated by a semipermeable membrane.  
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