BI110 Chapter Notes - Chapter 18: Cholesterol, Cotransporter, Dynamic Equilibrium
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Hypertonic solution: animals, cell shrivel, plant, cell shrivel, plasma membrane detaches from cell wall in process called plasmolysis. Isotonic solution: osmotic movement of water in and out of cell is balance, animal. Hypotonic solution: animal, swell and burst, plant, expand within cell wall, become turgid. Internal hydrostatic pressure stops flow of water into plant cells. Facilitated by integral membrane proteins--> transport proteins: passive, diffuse down concentration gradients, through channel or carrier proteins, diffusion mediated by transport proteins. Facilitated diffusion- membrane transport in which a substance moves across a cell membrane from high to low concentration through channel protein. Secondary active transport- pump is used to generate electrochemical gradient of one substance across a membrane, gradient is then used in turn to co transport a second substance against its concentration gradient. Sodium potassium pump- antiporter transport protein present in animal cells, maintains low sodium high potassium ion concentration, involved in signal transduction in organism.