Learning Objectives

• Identify cellular organelles and describe their major structural features and functions
• Explain the functional importance of specific organelles relative to the functions of tissues, organs and systems of the body
• Describe the fluid mosaic model of the membrane structure
• Describe the major structural features and functions of membrane junctions and projections
• Distinguish the major events of/ and differences between mitosis and meiosis and examine other (non-somatic) cell division

Cell Membrane

• what are the structural characteristics of the cell membrane?
• what are the functions of membrane proteins?
• how does the fluid mosaic model describe the membrane?
• what are the structural features of integral proteins?
• what are the structural features of peripheral proteins?
• what are the 3 types of membrane junctions?

Passive Transport

• what is passive transport?
• what is simple diffusion?
• what types of particles undergo simple diffusion?
• what is facilitated diffusion?
• how does channel-mediated facilitated diffusion work?