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Cell Defense Worksheet

The document is an iPad app that guides the user through building and repairing a plasma membrane. The user learns that phospholipids have polar heads and nonpolar tails, and that they form a bilayer with heads facing out and tails in. The user repairs the membrane by adding phospholipids, then cholesterol to stabilize it. Small polar molecules like water and oxygen can pass through, while larger nonpolar molecules cannot. Channel proteins and active transport are used to move substances against their concentration gradient using ATP. Carbohydrates on cell surfaces help the immune system identify foreign cells for destruction. The app challenges the user's understanding of membrane structure, diffusion, energy and transport, and osmosis through water channel proteins.

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Cell Defense Worksheet

The document is an iPad app that guides the user through building and repairing a plasma membrane. The user learns that phospholipids have polar heads and nonpolar tails, and that they form a bilayer with heads facing out and tails in. The user repairs the membrane by adding phospholipids, then cholesterol to stabilize it. Small polar molecules like water and oxygen can pass through, while larger nonpolar molecules cannot. Channel proteins and active transport are used to move substances against their concentration gradient using ATP. Carbohydrates on cell surfaces help the immune system identify foreign cells for destruction. The app challenges the user's understanding of membrane structure, diffusion, energy and transport, and osmosis through water channel proteins.

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Chen Chen Deinla
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iPad app

Name: ____________________
Cell Defense Date: _____________________
The Plasma Membrane
Period: ___________

Directions: Read the steps here and all the information on the iPad screen. Follow all
the steps carefully filling in all the blanks.

Step 1: Click touch here to begin the app. You want to move to the “Choose Your
Challenge!” menu. From the menu choose “Build a Membrane!” Dr. Vial has a vile
weapon (note the play on words) that destroys plasma membranes. Without _______
________________ cells of living things will die because they are unable to maintain
_________________________.

Step 2: Zoom in on the plasma membrane. From the “Urgent Message” you learn
that phospholipids are a ________________ Head and __ __________ ________ TAILS.
The heads are _______________________________ which means
______________________________.
The tails are ________________________________ which means
_______________________________.
The heads face out towards the ________________ and the tails facing ____________
_________.
Draw and label the phospholipid in the box:
Step 3: Repair the phospholipid membrane.
How many phospholipids did it take? _______
Step 4: What do you have to put into
the membrane in order to help stabilize it?
___________________________________ How many did you add? _____
Step 5: What is another word for selectively permeable?
_________________________________.
What does that mean? __________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________________.
Step 6: What 2 molecules easily pass through the membrane? Record why for each.
Molecule 1 Molecule 2
Step 7: What 3 molecules cannot easily pass through the membrane? Record why for each.
Molecule 1 Molecule 2 Molecule 3

What does polar mean?

Step 8: Insert channel proteins into the membrane. Transport substances across the
membrane. Note: You can only transport substances using channel proteins until there
were
_________________________________________________________________________________________.
What is this process called?
Step 9: Moving from ______ to _______ concentration requires the use of energy to _________ substances. This is called
______________________________ transport and uses: (place answer in table)

1. 2.
Which is cell ______________
Step 10: Carbohydrates are like identification badges. Cells that have different
membrane carbohydrates do different ________________. The immune system uses the
carbohydrates to _____________________ that your cells belong to ________ and are not
______________________, ____________________, or other foreign cells.
What does the immune system do to foreign invaders?
What kind of cell does this?
Step 11: Next take the “Membrane Structure Challenge!”
Step 12: Take the “Diffusion Challenge!”
Step 13: Take the “Energy and Transport Challenge!”
How many ATP did you use? ______ What type(s) of protein(s) were used?
__________________
_________________________________Explain when each type was
used._______________________
__________________________________________________________________________________________
Step 14: Take the “Osmosis Challenge!”
What is Osmosis?
_________________________________________________________________________
What is the name of the special proteins that let water pass through?
______________________
Is this passive or active transport? ______________________________________
Step 15: From your Scores Sheet record:
Lab Score (% correct): ____________

Number Correct: _______

Number Incorrect: _______

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