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Biology
9th Grade
02/03/2014

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What is the boundary between the cell and its environment and is a phospholipid bilayer?
Definition
plasma membrane
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What is the process of maintaining the cell's environment?
Definition
homeostasis
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What is the transport of material that does not require energy
Definition
passive transport
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What is diffusion?
Definition
Materials move from an area of higher concentration to an area of lower concetration
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What is diffusion in cells?
Definition
carbon dioxide and oxygen diffuse across the cell membrane
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What is the movement of water across a selectively permeable membrane?
Definition
osmosis
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What is the movement of water across a selectively permeable membrane?
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osmosis
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What are the types of solutions?
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isotonic, hypotonic, and hypertonic
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What has the same percentage of water inside the cell and outside of the cell? ("equal")
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isotonic
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In what is the percentage of water outside higher than the percentage of water inside? (cell walls swell)
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hypotonic solution
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What are hypertonic solutions?
Definition
percentage of water in is higher than out, water moves around the cell, and the cell shrinks
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What is plasmolysis?
Definition
plant cell loses water and the plant wilts
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What is Facilitated Diffusion?
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Another type of passive transport (high to low), movement of these molecules is assisted by carrier proteins
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What is movement of material that requires energy?
Definition
active transport
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What is an example of active transport in animal cells and moves sodium out of the cell and potassium into the cell?
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Sodium-Potassium pump
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What moves material into the cell?
Definition
Endocytosis
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What is pinocytosis?
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move fluids into the cell
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What is phagocytosis?
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move large particles or whole cells
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How do some unicellular organisms benefit by phagocytosis?
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they feed by it
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What is the process by which a substance is released from the cell?
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exocytosis
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