BIOL370 Lecture Notes - Peripheral Membrane Protein, Electrochemical Gradient, Lipid Raft

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The environment: external world animal , extracellular fluid cell or cytoplasm intracellular enzymes . Homeostasis: osmotic regulation, ionic regulation & nitrogen regulation. Solvents: the most abundant molecules in a liquid mixture (e. g. water) Solute: the other molecule in a liquid: solutes dissolve in solvents. If cell is hyposmotic: it contains less particles than the surrounding. If the solution is hyposmotic: it contains more particles than the cell. Diffusion: the direction of diffusion is dependent on the concentration gradient, not so much for rate. Colligative properties of water: more solute reduces freezing point, increases bp, vp & op. Tonicity: the effect of a solution on cell volume (depends on membrane permeability: hypertonic solution: cell shrinks, water leaves the cell by osmosis, hypotonic solution: cell swells, water enters the cell by osmosis. Isotonic solution: cell does not shrink nor swell, no net osmosis. The osmolarity of the cell & the solution being the same.

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