Membrane Potentials

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ATP

What do cells use for energy

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mitochondria

Where is ATP made

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ATP

What do we need in order to live

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ATP

renewable energy currency

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In the bonds

In ATP Where is the energy

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to make ATP

Why do we need O2

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ATP

Builds ion gradients, contracts and relaxes muscle, and more

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Osmosis

passive movement (diffusion) of water

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Osmosis

simple diffusion of H2O molecules

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Osmosis

Non-carrier-mediated transport (Passive)

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Hypotonic solution

has a lower solute concentration

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Isotonic solution

equal solute concentration

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hypertonic solution

higher solute concentration

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hypertonic solution

when the cell shrinks and water leaves the cell

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isotonic solution

When water can move in and out of the cell at even rates; no net water flow; stable

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hypotonic solution

when the cell swells and water rushes in the cell

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hypotonic

solution would result in distilled water

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hypertonic

solution would result in salt water

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isotonic

solution would result in tap water

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hypertonic

water moves into what areas

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equilibrium

water will move until it reaches

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passive diffusion movement

net movement of molecules and ions across a membrane from higher to lower concentration

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passive diffusion

what movement requires NO (metabolic) energy

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passive diffusion

movement that is generally bidirectional

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Osmosis

For _ to occur, the membrane must be selectively permeable

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passive diffusion movement

high to low

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passive diffusion

spontaneous and nonspecific (moves equally in and out) movement

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passive diffusion

Moves small, nonpolar and/or lipid soluble (can ally to large lipids)

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passive diffusion movement

Moves O2 and CO2

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carrier proteins or channel proteins

Facilitated diffusion uses what to passively transport hydrophilic molecules

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facilitated diffusion

carrier mediated transport

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facilitated diffusion

Allow something to move through a little portal without energy input

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facilitated diffusion

movement that Needs Carriers

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facilitated diffusion

specific(only lets 1 kind of ion move through), saturable, and competetive movement

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facilitated diffusion

Moves polar and/or large molecules

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facilitated diffusion

moves K+ and Cl-

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Facilitated diffusion is specific

difference between facilitated diffusion and simple diffusion

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CO-transport

Uses stored energy gradients to move cargo

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Co-transport

Direction can be from high to low or from low to high

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Co transport

movement that is concentration gradient-powered

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cotransport

specific and saturable movement

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cotransport

always moves two things

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cotransport

Na+/Glucose symporter

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cotransport

Na+/Ca2+ antiporter

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antiport

moving something in the opposite direction

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symport

moving something in the same direction

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electrochemical gradient

in Co transport what is so high it powers the movement of cargo

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cotransport

glucose is primarily transported by

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ATP

active transport requires what to build gradients

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active transport

low to high movement

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active transport

movement that uses ATP

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active transport

specific, saturable, slow pumps

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active transport

moves small, polar (charged especially), always TWO things

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active transport

Moves Na+/K+ ATPase

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active transport

Moves H+/K+ ATPase

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ATP

ATPase breaks down

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transporter

Na+/K+ ATPase uses a

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H+/K+ ATPase

what makes stomach acid and doesn't want a charge

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Na+/K+ ATPase

Pump that is critical in establishing and maintaining membrane potentials

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enzyme

-ase

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gradients

Na+/K+ ATPase establishes _ underlying excitable cells

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extracellular fluid

in the Na+/K+ ATPase pump, the Na+ is more concentrated in the

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cytoplasm

in the Na+/K+ ATPase pump, the K+ is more concentrated in the

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3 out of the cell cytoplasm

How many Na+ does the Na+/K+ ATPase pump transport

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2 into the cytoplasm

How many k+ does the Na+/K+ ATPase pump transport

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against- needs energy

the Na+/K+ ATPase pump transport is active because they are both going the concentration gradient

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excited

the Na+/K+ ATPase pump allows neurons and nerves to be

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active and facilitated transport

Resting membrane potential is maintained by what

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negative

Inside the cell is a net ___ charge

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postive

outside the cell is a net _ charge

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leaky

The Na+ pump is not

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leaky

the K+ pump is pretty

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charge

resting membrane potential is the difference in _ across the cell membrane at rest

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membrane voltage

Concentration gradients establish

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Nernst Equation

what explains how charge influences how ions move just as much as concentration gradient does

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concentration and charge

what 2 factors drive ion movement

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energy potential

limited movement=

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rest; movement

The nernst equation sets up the ability to have a difference between ____ and _____

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ion concentrations

what determines where ions go

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opposite

opposite concentration gradients means Na+ and K+ have equilibrium potentials

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+60

Voltage needs to be ____ mV for Na+ to reach equilibrium

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concentration; charge

Ions are influences by own and _ of membrane

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muscle contraction

myocyte action potentials allow

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depolarizing

muscles contract by membranes

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communicate

action potentials allow neurons to

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membranes

neurons send signals by depolarizing

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membranes

different mechanisms allow molecules to cross

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membrane potential

stores energy in the form of a voltage difference across a membrane that is driven by ion concentrations

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membrane potentials

neurons and muscles use what to do their jobs

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simple diffusion through membrane channels.

The movement of water across a plasma membrane occurs by

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B

Which of these statements about the facilitated diffusion of glucose is true?

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A. There is a net movement from the region of lower to the region of higher concentration.

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B. Carrier proteins in the plasma membrane are required for this transport.

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C. This transport requires energy obtained from ATP.

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D. It is an example of cotransport

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The movement of Na+ out of a cell

If a poison such as cyanide stopped the production of ATP, which of the following transport processes would cease?

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