BioK Quick Quiz on Membrane transport (1.

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BioKnowledgy Quick Quiz on Membrane transport (1.4)

[19 marks]

1. What do diffusion and osmosis have in common?

A. They only happen in living cells.

B. They require transport proteins in the membrane.

C. They are passive transport mechanisms.

D. Net movement of substances is against the concentration gradient.

(Total 1 mark)

2. Which of the following is a feature of exocytosis but not endocytosis?

A. Shape changes of a membrane

B. Vesicle formation

C. Use of ATP

D. Secretion
(Total 1 mark)

3. What route is used to export proteins from the cell?

A. Golgi apparatus → rough endoplasmic reticulum → plasma membrane

B. Rough endoplasmic reticulum → Golgi apparatus → plasma membrane

C. Golgi apparatus → lysosome → rough endoplasmic reticulum

D. Rough endoplasmic reticulum → lysosome → Golgi apparatus

(Total 1 mark)

4. When observing the behaviour of a vesicle in a cell, what identifies it as a vesicle only involved in
exocytosis?

A. Adhesion between two lipid bilayers

B. Fusion of two membranes

C. Secretion of material

D. Invagination of a plasma membrane

(Total 1 mark)

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BioK Quick Quiz on Membrane transport (1.4)

5. (a) Define osmosis.

Osmosis is the transfer of solvent from a region of lower concentration to a region of

higher concentration
(1)

(b) Compare and contrast simple diffusion with facilitated diffusion as mechanisms to transport
solutes across membranes.
(5)

Simple diffusion is a type of passive transport which, as the name suggests, is simply the
unassisted movement of solute which occurs when its electrochemical potentials on the two
sides of a permeable barrier are different. Facilitated diffusion is the process of biological
transport in which specific structural components of biological membranes interact with
particular solutes or classes of solutes, markedly increasing the rates at which they can
cross the membrane.

(c) Describe the process of endocytosis.

(5)
The process by which large substances (or bulk amounts of smaller substances) enter the cell
without crossing the membrane. An invagination of the membrane forms a flask-like depression
which envelopes the extracellular material. The invagination is then sealed off to form an
intracellular vesicle containing the material.

There are two main types of endocytosis:

Phagocytosis – The process by which solid substances are ingested (usually to be transported to
the lysosome)
Pinocytosis – The process by which liquids / dissolved substances are ingested (allows faster
entry than via protein channels)

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BioK Quick Quiz on Membrane transport (1.4)

(d) Distinguish between active and passive movements of materials across plasma membranes,
using named examples.
(4)

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