Biology SL

Chapter 6: Cell Function

Explain how membranes control exchange, organelles coordinate cellular work, geometry constrains size, and cell division preserves or reshuffles genetic information.

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Selective transport laboratory

Compare passive passage through a protein with ATP-coupled movement against a gradient.

Appears in: 6.2 Diffusion, Osmosis and Active Transport, 6.5 Meiosis, Variation and Non-disjunction, Chapter Synthesis: Boundaries, Scale and Continuity

Exchange · gradients · inheritance

Cell function laboratory

FLUID MOSAIC — 45 °Cintegral channelglycoproteinUnsaturated tails: 38%fluidity buffered