Chapter 4 extras: A tour of the cell 
| "If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the precipitate." - Anon. |
Plasma membrane: fluid mosaic model
Pancreas, glucose, and liver: role of insulin receptors
Action of epinephrine (adrenaline): role of beta-adrenergic receptors, diffusion, ATP, glycogen, glucose
Mitochondrial DNA: tracing human ancestry
Chloroplasts in Elodea: streaming
Cytoskeleton diversity: microtubules
Cell crawling: neutrophil on the chase
Cell crawling: fibroblasts on the loose
Organelle movement along microtubule: kinesin walking, powered by ADP/ATP
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Your kidney at work: osmosis, diffusion, active transport in a nephron
Can we drink seawater?
Reverse osmosis: desalinating seawater
Sodium Potassium Pump: active transport
Amoeba eats two paramecia: by endocytosis
How a flu virus invades your body: by binding to membrane proteins
Endocytosis of LDL Cholesterol: to make new membranes, via vesicles and endosomes
Extra credit readings
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