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Liver cells secrete most blood proteins. What organelle is particularly abundant in liver cells?

While water continually orients phospholipids into a lipid bilayer, it does not fix the lipids permanently into position. Thus, the bilayer is considered to be _______ in nature.

Which of the following is NOT a distinguishing characteristic of prokaryotic cells?

The delivery system of eukaryotic cells called the ______ can collect, package, modify, and transport molecules.

In eukaryotes, mitochondria are the organelles primarily involved in

Small cells function more effectively, because as cells become larger their surface area to volume ratio

Osmosis occurs as water can cross the lipid bilayer through __________________, specialized channels for water movement.

All _____ contain a plasma membrane.

___________ are important in respiration, while chloroplasts are involved in photosynthesis.

As a scientist you perform an experiment in which you create an artificial cell with a selectively permeable membrane through which only water can pass. You put a 5M solution of glucose into the cell and you place that into a beaker of 10M glucose. What observations do you expect to see?