Passive Transport
This text discusses selective permeability, diffusion, facilitated transport, osmosis, tonicity, and tonicity in living systems.
Topics
- active transport
- amphiphilic
- antiporter
- aquaporin
- carrier protein
- caveolin
- channel protein
- clathrin
- concentration gradient
- diffusion
- electrochemical gradient
- electrogenic pump
- endocytosis
- exocytosis
- facilitated transport
- fluid mosaic model
- glycolipid
- glycoprotein
- hydrophilic
- hydrophobic
- hypertonic
- hypotonic
- integral protein
- isotonic
- osmolarity
- osmosis
- passive transport
- peripheral protein
- pinocytosis
- plasmolysis
- potocytosis
- primary active transport
- pump
- receptor-mediated endocytosis
- secondary active transport
- selectively permeable
- solute
- symporter
- tonicity
- transport protein
- transporter
- uniporter
- solvent density
- turgor pressure
- contractile vacuole
- glucose transport protein
- membrane function
- membrane structure
- osmoreceptor
- osmoregulation
- rate of diffusion
- selective permeability
- plasma membrane
- solvent
- solubility