CELL MEMBRANE

TRANSPORT

TYPES

Simple diffussion

Diffusion from an area of higher concentration to a lower one

What can move?

hydrophobic and lipophilic nature, of small size and without electric charge.

Osmosis

only happen if the phospholipid bilayer is permeable to the particles.

movement

Facilitated diffusion

Water is able to move

Active transport

FLUIDITY

Vesicles

Endocytosis

Exocytosis

ATP energy required

property

allows material to move inside the cell

due to

phospholipids

no energy used

concentration gradient

Difference in concentration of a substance on two sides of a membrane.

channels

small sac of membrane

present in eukaryotic cells

moves materials around inside cells

allows materials in vesicles to be taken inside cells be endocytosis.

holes with a very narrow diameter.

Water molecules pass through a membrane

for this

proteins pull a small section of the membrane, using ATP.

Channels for particles to pass

Free movement through specific channels.

Doesn't need energy

examples

vesicles contain water, solutes but also larger molecules

vesicles

can release materials from cells

if

vesicle fuses with plasma membrane

contents are released of the membrane

can also

expel waste products

from a higher to a lower concentration

only one type of particle passes (not both)

glucose transport and ion transport (can't pass because of its charge and polarity)

No energy required

due to

concentration gradient

in

substances dissolved in water

Types

Isotonic

Hypertonic

Hypotonic

same number of
dissolved particles

than

higher
concentration of
dissolved particles

than

lower
number of dissolved
particles

than

the cell cytoplasm

Cell sometimes take in substances, it is absorbed against the concentration gradient.

by

proteins in membranes (pump proteins)