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BIOCHEMICAL PROPERTIES OF LIPIDS STUDY GUIDE WITHCOMPLETE SOLUTION!!
Phospholipid Bilayer
Answers :Arrangement with hydrophobic tails inward and hydrophilic heads
outward.
Selective Permeability
Answers :Property of the bilayer allowing specific molecules to pass through.
Saturated Fatty Acids
Answers :Fatty acids with no double bonds, decreasing membrane fluidity.
Unsaturated Fatty Acids
Answers :Fatty acids with one or more double bonds, increasing membrane
fluidity.
Cholesterol
Answers :Regulates membrane fluidity; stabilizes at high temps, prevents stiffness
at low temps.
Facilitated Diffusion
Answers :Movement of molecules with the help of transport proteins.
Osmosis
Answers :Passive movement of water across a selectively permeable membrane.
Active Transport
, Answers :Requires energy to move substances against their concentration gradient.
Electrochemical Gradient
Answers :Combined influence of solute concentration and electrical gradient
across a membrane.
Signal Transduction
Answers :Process of cells responding to external signals by changing behavior.
Membrane-bound Receptors
Answers :Receptors binding polar signals on the cell membrane.
Cytoplasmic Receptors
Answers :Receptors binding nonpolar signals within the cell.
Phosphorylation Cascades
Answers :Series of enzyme activations amplifying a signal in cell signaling.
Cellular Respiration
Answers :Process of producing ATP from glucose in cells.
Glycolysis
Answers :Metabolic pathway yielding ATP and pyruvate in the cytoplasm.
Citric Acid Cycle
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