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Its Okay...

To not do SUPER good on the first Chemistry test of the semester… Right?… RIGHT!??! Just tell me Its alright. I DON’T know how to do any of this math :[ Or ionic compound bonds and thingys… And all my coffee isn’t working anymore. 

Le Sigh >.<

Active and Passive Transport - Biology

Things to know when going into this subject:

  • The Cell Membrane is a semi-permeable band that holds the cell together and lets only certain needed nutrients into, and  out of the cell. In other words, it’s indecisive.
  • That membrane is constantly letting things in and out

Passive Transport - requires no energy

  • Simple diffusion
  • Osmosis
  • Facilitated diffusion

Simple Diffusion

  1. Movement from high concentration to low concentration
  2. Spontainious

Osmosis

  1. Movement of water from a higher concentration to a lower consentration

Facilitated diffusion

  1. Use of protein molecules to help large molecules pass

Isotonic - has an equal concentration of solute.

Hyper-tonic - has a higher solute concentration than hypo-tonic

Hypo-tonic - has a lower concentration of solute than hyper-tonic

Lysed - to rupture/burst.

Active Transport - requires energy to transfer a molecule across the membrane

  • Proton (Ion) Pump
  • Endocytosis (Phagocytosis)
  • Endocytosis (Pinocytosis)
  • Exocytosis
  • Na+ - K+ Pump

Ion Pumps

  1. Special carriers to move large molecules against concentration gradient

Endocytosis

  1. 2 types - Phago and Pino
  2. Phago - solid
  3. Pino - liquid
  4. Bulk transport of material into the cell

Exocytosis

  1. Moving large amount of material out of the way

ATP: Energy that helps transfer things in and out of the membrane, reproduction, and protein synthesis. It reacts with compounds in order to create this energy.

Everytime I take some medicine I wonder what crazy adventure it and osmosis jones are doing.

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