Chapter 3 Flashcards
Define Plasma Membrane
Outer boundary of the cell. Separates the intracellular fluid within cells and the extracellular fluid outside cells.
Define Lipid Bilayer
forms the basic fabric of the membrane. constructed largely of phospholipids, with smaller amounts of glycolipids, cholesterol, and areas called lipid rafts.
Define Phospholipids
in the plasma membrane, its a phospholipid bilayer because there are 2 layers of phospholipids. the hydrophilic (water loving) are facing the intracellular and extracellular fluids, while the hydrophobic (water fearing) are faced together.
Define Cholesterol
Has polar and non-polar regions. It wedges its hydrocarbon rings between phospholipid tails, stabilizing the membrane and decreasing the mobility of the phospholipids.
Define Intracellular Fluid
Fluid within the cell.
Define Extracellular Fluid
Fluid outside of the cell.
Fluid Mosaic model
a model that depicts the plasma membrane as a structure composed of lipid bilayers with protein molecules dispersed in it.
Hydrophobic
Scared of water.
Hydrophilic
Love of water.
Integral Proteins
Firmly inserted proteins in the lipid bilayer. Some protude only from one membrane, while others are transmembrane proteins that span both sides of the membrane.
Peripheral Proteins
Proteins that are not embedded in the lipid bilayer. loosely attached to integral proteins. Includes a network of filaments that helps support the membrane from its cytoplasmic side.
Glycolipids
lipids with attached sugar groups. Found only on the outer plasma membrane.
Glycoproteins
a protein that has an attached sugar group. Found only on the outer plasma membrane.
Tight Junctions
series of integral protein molecules in the plasma membranes of adjacent cells that fuse together, forming an impermeable junction that encircles the cell.
Desmosomes
anchoring junction binds adjacent cells together like a molecular “velcro” and help form an internal tension-reducing network of fibers.
Gap Junctions
A communicating junction between adjacent cells. Allows ions and small molecules to pass for intercellular communication through hollow cylinders called connexons.
Interstitial fluid
An extracellular fluid that our cells bathe in.
Selectively permeable
a membrane that allows certain substances to pass while restricting the movement of others; also called differentially permeable membrane.
Diffusion (passive transport)
tendency of molecules or ions to move from an area of high concentration to low concentration (concentration gradient)
Simple diffusion (passive transport)
nonpolar and lipid soluble substances diffuse directly through the lipid bilayer.
Facilitated diffusion (passive transport)
molecules and ions are transported passively through the lipid bilayer. The transported substance either, binds to protein carriers in the membrane and is carried across, or they move through water filled protein channels.
Osmosis
the diffusion of a solvent, such as water, through a selectively permeable membrane.
Aquaporins
transmembrane proteins which allow single-file diffusion of water molecules.
Osmolarity
The total concentration of all solute particles in a solution.
Tonicity
The ability of a solution to change the shape or ton of cells by altering the cells’ internal water volume
Hypertonic
solutions that have a higher concentration of non-penetrating solutes than seen in the cell. Cells immersed in hypertonic solutions lose water and shrink, or CRENATE.
Hypotonic
More dilute than cells. Cells placed in a hypotonic solution plump up rapidly as water rushes into them.
Isotonic
solutions that have the same concentrations of non-penetrating solutes as those found in the cell. They retain their normal shape, and exhibit no net loss or gain of water.
Primary Active Transport
with energy, carrier proteins can transport substances against a concentration gradient. Energy comes directly from hydrolysis of ATP.
Secondary Active transport
does not use ATP directly but takes advantage of a previously existing concentration gradient. smaller ions would follow a long the gradient.
NA+ K+ pump
because the cells of the body have higher concentration of K+, and outside of the cell has a higher concentration of Na+, they both tend to leak slowly through leakage channels in the plasma membrane along their concentration gradient. The pump simultaneously drives Na+ out of the cell against a steep concentration gradient and pump K+ back in.
Vesicular transport
fluids containing large particles and macromolecules are transported across cellular membranes inside membranous sac called vesicles.