selective permeability - Answer ✔✔- allowing some substances to cross it more easily
than others
amphipathic molecules - Answer ✔✔- phospholipids are this. containing hydrophobic
and hydrophilic regions
fluid mosaic model - Answer ✔✔- states that a membrane is a fluid structure with a
mosaic of various proteins embedded in it
membrane - Answer ✔✔- a collage of different proteins, often grouped together,
embedded in the fluid matrix of the lipid bilayer
peripheral proteins - Answer ✔✔- bound to the surface of the membrane
integral proteins - Answer ✔✔- penetrate the hydrophobic core
transmembrane proteins - Answer ✔✔- integral proteins that span the entire membrane
concentration gradient - Answer ✔✔- the region along which the density of a chemical
substance increases or decreases
passive transpor or osmosis - Answer ✔✔- diffusion of a substance across a membrane
with no energy investment
osmosis - Answer ✔✔- the diffusion of water across a selectively permeable membrane
toniciy - Answer ✔✔- the ability of a surrounding solution to cause a cell to gain or lose
water
isotonic solution - Answer ✔✔- solute concentration is the same as ha inside the cell; no
net water movement across the plasma membrane
hypertonic colution - Answer ✔✔- solute concentration is greater than that inside the
cell;cell loses water
hypotonic solution - Answer ✔✔- solute concentration is less than that inside the cell;
cell gains water
turgid - Answer ✔✔- a plant cell in a hypotonic solution swells until the wall opposes
uptake; firm