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    Activity 4 - Transport Across Membrane

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    The document contains questions and explanations about diffusion, transport mechanisms, and osmosis. 1) It lists oxygen, water, glucose and ferric ions in order of decreasing rate of diffusion, explaining that oxygen and water are small molecules that can diffuse through membranes, while glucose is larger and ferric ions are charged. 2) It differentiates simple diffusion, facilitated diffusion, active transport, endocytosis, and exocytosis based on whether they require transport proteins, use cellular energy, and move substances against or with concentration gradients. 3) Using a diagram of bags in beakers, it identifies which beakers contain hypotonic and hypertonic solutions based on solute concentration inside and outside the

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    The document contains questions and explanations about diffusion, transport mechanisms, and osmosis. 1) It lists oxygen, water, glucose and ferric ions in order of decreasing rate of diffusion, explaining that oxygen and water are small molecules that can diffuse through membranes, while glucose is larger and ferric ions are charged. 2) It differentiates simple diffusion, facilitated diffusion, active transport, endocytosis, and exocytosis based on whether they require transport proteins, use cellular energy, and move substances against or with concentration gradients. 3) Using a diagram of bags in beakers, it identifies which beakers contain hypotonic and hypertonic solutions based on solute concentration inside and outside the

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    The document contains questions and explanations about diffusion, transport mechanisms, and osmosis. 1) It lists oxygen, water, glucose and ferric ions in order of decreasing rate of diffusion, explaining that oxygen and water are small molecules that can diffuse through membranes, while glucose is larger and ferric ions are charged. 2) It differentiates simple diffusion, facilitated diffusion, active transport, endocytosis, and exocytosis based on whether they require transport proteins, use cellular energy, and move substances against or with concentration gradients. 3) Using a diagram of bags in beakers, it identifies which beakers contain hypotonic and hypertonic solutions based on solute concentration inside and outside the

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    Activity 1
    Questions for Review:

    1. Arrange the following according to decreasing rate of diffusion across the membrane.

    A. Water B. Oxygen C. Glucose D. Ferric ion

    Oxygen Water Glucose Ferric ion

    Briefly explain the factor/s you considered in answering the above question.

    I think oxygen to water to glucose to ferric ion is the arrangement in decreasing rate of
    diffusion across the membrane. First is water, because it's a very small molecule that can
    pass through the cell membrane by osmosis. Second is the oxygen, because it is small and
    uncharged substances that can pass through the cell membrane, down their concentration
    gradient, by simple diffusion. Third is glucose, since it is a large molecule, it is difficult to be
    transported across the membrane through simple diffusion. Then last is the ferric ions because
    it is large polar molecules enable to pass through the membrane by passive or active
    transport.

    2. Differentiate the following:


    (a) simple diffusion; facilitated diffusion

    Simple Diffusion movement is greater concentration to a region of a lower


    concentration that the molecules can pass only in the direction of concentration gradient.
    While facilitated diffusion is a form of passive transport that requires transport proteins in the
    membrane and can pass both in direction and opposite of the concentration gradient

    (b) facilitated diffusion; active transport

    Facilitated diffusion is a form of passive transport that requires transport proteins in the
    membrane and can pass both in direction and opposite of the concentration gradient. While Fundamentals of Biology
    active transport is specialized membrane proteins that preferred to as pumps are involved
    accompanied by input of cellular energy and used to transport molecules against their
    concentration gradient.

    (c) endocytosis;exocytosis
    Endocytosis is a small segment of plasma membrane that folds inward forming a pouch
    around the particle to be taken into the cell which then pinches off and released into the
    Gonzales

    cytoplasm as a vehicle. While, exocytosis is a cellular products destined for secretion, first
    packaged into vesicles which then are transported to the plasma membrane.
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    3. Use this picture to answer the following questions.

    1 2 3 4 5

    a. Which beaker/s contain/s a solution that is hypotonic to the bag? Why?


    1. Beakers 1 and 2
    2. Beaker 2
    3. Beakers 1, 4 and 5
    4. Beakers 2 and 4

    Hypertonic means that the concentration of solute surrounding the cell is higher than
    that inside the cell. And the solute concentration in the beaker that is higher than the bag
    shown in beakers 1, 2, and 5. While, beaker 3 is isotonic to the bag, and beaker 4 is hypotonic
    to the bag.

    b. Which bag would you predict to show the least change in mass at the end of the
    experiment? Why?
    1. Beaker 1
    2. Beaker 2
    3. Beaker 3
    4. Beaker 4

    Since the two solutions shown are isotonic, there will be no net gain or loss of water, and
    therefore a negligible change in mass.

    4. In an experiment, a student immersed plant tissue in salt solutions of different


    concentrations. The student then observed the plant tissue under the microscope. In one of the
    solutions the student concluded that the cells within the tissue were at incipient plasmolysis.
    What observation had the student made that allowed her to make this conclusion?
    Fundamentals of Biology
    I think, he/she came up in that conclusion because he observed that when plant
    cells are kept in concentrated salt solution, water will flow out from plant cells due to the
    process of exosmosises and thus, cells shrink, called as plasmolysis and cells are called as
    plasmolysis cells.
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