CH3 MOVEMENT OF SUBSTANCES ACROSS CELL MEMBRANE

Cell membrane

Fluid mosaic model
Phospholipids make a bilayer, molecules can move laterally (fluid)
proteins interspersed (mosaic)

Phospholipid

glycerol w/ phosphate group + 3 fatty acids
Head: polar, hydrophilic
Tail: non-polar, hydrophobic

Proteins

4 ways of movement

  1. Diffusion
  2. Osmosis
  3. Active transport
  4. Phagocytosis

Diffusion

Active transport

Phagocytosis

  1. pit/pseudopodium formed at cell membrane to engulf particle
  2. Particle enclosed in small vacuole
  3. cell releases enzymes to digest particle
  4. digested products diffuse to cytoplasm