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AP Biology
Reading Guide
Chapter 5 – Cell Transport and Communication
Chapters 37.1 and 5.1- 4 – Membrane Structure and Function;
Transport Across Membranes*
*Adapted and modified from Robbyn Tuinstra’s work
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QUESTIONS – Membrane Structure
1. Describe the fluid-mosaic membrane model proposed by Singer and Nicolson.
2. Sketch a generic phospholipid. Identify the position of the
hydrophobic and hydrophilic regions.
3. Match the structure with the correct letter from the diagram.
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Cholesterol
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Hydrophobic end of phospholipids
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Cytoskeleton
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Integral protein
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Glycolipid
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Lipid bilayer
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Glycoprotein
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Oligosaccharides
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Peripheral protein
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Hydrophilic end of phospholipids
4. What components of the cell membrane contribute to the fluid quality of the cell membrane?
5. Explain how composition of the membrane may affect fluidity of the membrane.
6. How are integral proteins different from peripheral proteins?
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Integral Proteins
Peripheral Proteins
7. What types of amino acid side chains would you predict interface with the fatty acid core of the
membrane vs. the extracellular and intracellular regions?
8. Define each of the following terms:
Term
Definition
Glycoprotein
Glycolipid
9. What are some possible roles of carbohydrates on the surface of the cell membrane?
QUESTIONS – Cell Transport
10. Why is the plasma membrane described as selectively permeable?
11. Identify the molecules can passively cross a membrane and those that are excluded.
Freely permeable
Impermeable
12. Describe the process of diffusion. What drives the diffusion process? Why is it spontaneous?
13. Name a physiologically relevant process that occurs by simple diffusion.
14. Write the equation for Fick’s Law below. Define all terms of the equation.
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15. Describe how each of the following affects the rate of diffusion.
MOLECULAR SIZE
TEMPERATURE
CONCENTRATION
GRADIENT
16. Define osmosis and osmotic pressure.
17. Examine the diagrams below. The arrows
indicate the direction of net water movement.
Answer the following questions.
a. Which panel shows a hypertonic environment?
A
B
C
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b. Which panel shows a cell hypertonic to its environment?
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c. Which panel shows an isotonic environment? _____________________________
d. Describe what is happening to the plant and animal cells in Panel B (use the terms crenation and
plasmolysis).
e. Explain why this is happening.
f. Describe what is happening to the plant and animal cells in Panel C (use the terms cytolysis and
turgor pressure).
18. Define facilitated diffusion.
19. Compare and contrast a channel protein and a carrier protein. Why can the rate of facilitated
diffusion using a carrier protein become saturated as concentration of solute increases?
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20. What is a gated channel? Distinguish between a ligand-gated and voltage-gated channel.
21. Is there a specific water channel protein? Explain why the discovery of this channel does not
discount the generally observation that transport of water is a passive process.
22. Contrast movement by facilitated diffusion with movement by active transport.
23. Why is active transport directional, whereas simple diffusion and facilitated diffusion bidirectional
processes?
24. Describe what is occurring during the
functioning of the Na-K pump (pictured at right).
25. Why does the action of the Na-K pump result in
the formation of an electric gradient?
26. Distinguish between primary active transport
and secondary active transport? Give an
example of each. Then discuss how primary
active transport provides the energy required for
secondary active transporter.
Describe and Contrast the Three Methods of Endocytosis
Phagocytosis
Pinocytosis
ReceptorMediated
Endocytosis
27. Explain how selectivity can be achieved by receptor-mediated endocytosis. Give a physiologically
relevant example of this process.
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28. Distinguish between various transport processes in a cell by completing the following chart:
Type of transport
Energy
Required?
Direction
Requirements
Examples
Diffusion
Osmosis
Facilitated
transport
Active
transport
Exocytosis
Endocytosis
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