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Exercise 1: Cell Transport Mechanisms and Permeability: Activity 2: Simulated Facilitated Diffusion Lab Report

Pre-lab Quiz Results

You scored 100% by answering 4 out of 4 questions correctly.

1. Molecules need a carrier protein to help them move across a membrane because
You correctly answered: d. they are lipid insoluble or they are too large.

2. Which of the following is true of facilitated diffusion?

You correctly answered: c. Movement is passive and down a concentration gradient.

3. Examples of solutes that might require facilitated diffusion include

You correctly answered: d. all of the above.

4. Which of the following would not affect the rate of facilitated diffusion?
You correctly answered: a. the amount of intracellular ATP

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Experiment Results
Predict Question:
Predict Question 1: What effect do you think increasing the number of protein carriers will have on the glucose transport
rate?
Your answer : b. The glucose transport rate will increase.

Predict Question 2: What effect do you think adding Na+ Cl- will have on the glucose transport rate?
Your answer : c. There will be no change in the glucose transport rate.

Stop & Think Questions:

What happened to the glucose transport rate when the glucose concentration was increased from 2 mM to
8 mM?
You correctly answered: a. The glucose transport rate increased.

Describe the conditions that resulted in the fastest rate of glucose transport.
You correctly answered: d. 700 glucose carrier proteins and 8 mM glucose

Why do you think equilibrium wasn't reached?

You correctly answered: b. The membrane proteins were saturated.

Experiment Data:

Run Number Solute Start Conc. L Start Conc. R Carriers Rate

1 Na+ Cl- 0.00 0.00 500 0.0000
1 Glucose 2.00 0.00 500 0.0008
2 Na+ Cl- 0.00 0.00 500 0.0000
2 Glucose 8.00 0.00 500 0.0023
3 Na+ Cl- 0.00 0.00 700 0.0000
3 Glucose 2.00 0.00 700 0.0010
4 Na+ Cl- 0.00 0.00 700 0.0000
4 Glucose 8.00 0.00 700 0.0031
5 Na+ Cl- 0.00 0.00 100 0.0000
5 Glucose 10.00 0.00 100 0.0028#
6 Na+ Cl- 0.00 2.00 700 0.0042
6 Glucose 2.00 0.00 700 0.0010

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Post-lab Quiz Results
You scored 100% by answering 4 out of 4 questions correctly.

1. What variable(s) increased the rate of facilitated diffusion of glucose?

You correctly answered: d. both a and b

2. For facilitated diffusion, increasing the concentration of glucose on one side of the membrane is the same as
You correctly answered: b. making the concentration gradient steeper

3. When all of the membrane carriers are engaged, or busy, we say they are
You correctly answered: a. saturated.

4. Na+ Cl- had no effect on glucose transport because

You correctly answered: b. sodium is not required for glucose transport in the simulation.

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Review Sheet Results
1. Explain one way in which facilitated diffusion is the same as simple diffusion and one way in which it is different from
simple diffusion.
Your answer:
The similarity of facilitated diffusion and simple diffusion is that both processes involve the passive movement of molecules
along their concentration gradient. The difference is that simple diffusion requires energy in the form of ATP while facilitated
diffusion doesn't require ATP but it needs the help of carriers during transport of large molecules.

2. The larger value obtained when more glucose carriers were present corresponds to an increase in the rate of glucose
transport. Explain why the rate increased. How well did the results compare with your prediction?
Your answer:
The increase in the number of protein carriers would increase the glucose transport rate since protein carriers aid the
movement of glucose across the membrane. The prediction matched the results obtained from the experiment.

3. Explain your prediction for the effect Na+ Cl- might have on glucose transport. In other words, explain why you picked
the choice that you did. How well did the results compare with your prediction?
Your answer:
Na+Cl- should not have any effect on the glucose transport because it is not required for the transport of glucose. Only
protein carriers aid the transport of glucose to the membrane

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