Name: _______________________________________________________________________ Per: _____________ Date: ____________________
Open “Manager” and download this app →
Cell Defense:
The Plasma Membrane
Directions: Download the above app (Cell Defense, The Plasma Membrane). Read the steps here and all the
information on the iPad screen. Follow all the steps carefully filling in all the blanks.
1. Select “Start a New Game”.
2. From the menu choose “Build a Membrane!”
Dr. Vial has a vile weapon that destroys plasma membranes. Without the _____________
Plasma_________________,
membrane
cells of living things will die because they are unable to maintain _________________________.
homeostatis
3. Stop at the “Urgent Message!”
Phospholipids are made of a ________________
fatty
acid tails. The heads are
2 ____________ __________
phosphate head and ____
_______________________________ which means ______________________________. The tails are
hydrophilic water loving
hydrophobic water
________________________________ which means _______________________________.
fearing The heads face out towards the
water each other
________________ and the tails facing ____________ ____________.
Draw and label a
hydrophilic head
phospholipid here:
hydrophobic
tails
4. Repair the phospholipid membrane. How many phospholipids did it take? _______ 15
Cholesterol
5. What do you have to put into the membrane in order to help stabilize it? ______________________
4
How many did you add? ______
6. Semi permable
What is another word for selectively permeable? _________________________________.
What does that mean?
membrane some stuff to
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
allows pass through but not others
________________________________________________________________________________________________
7. What 2 molecules easily pass through the membrane? Record why for each.
Molecule 1 Molecule 2
oxygen carbon dioxide
8. What 3 molecules cannot easily pass through the membrane? Record why for each.
Molecule 1 Molecule 2 Molecule 3
Sugar Iont Ion
relating to the Poles
9. What does polar mean? ________________________________________________________________________________
10. Insert channel proteins into the membrane and observe the substances being transported across the
membrane. Substances can only be transported using channel proteins until there are
equal amounts both
____________________________________________________________________.
on sideomprone diffusion
This process is called ______________________
___________________________.
11. Moving from _______ to _________ concentration requires the use of energy. This is called
______________________________ transport and uses _________, which is cell energy.
12. Carbohydrates are like identification badges. Cells that have different membrane carbohydrates do different
things Identify
________________. The immune system uses the carbohydrates to _____________________ that your cells belong to
invasive
________ and are not ______________________,
you batteria
____________________, or other foreign cells.
13. Next take the “Membrane Structure Challenge!”
14. Take the “Diffusion Challenge!”
15. Take the “Energy and Transport Challenge!”
5
How many ATP did you use? ______
Kinases
What type(s) of protein(s) were used? ________________________________________________________________
Explain when each type was used
kinases
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
16. Take the “Osmosis Challenge!”
passage of water
What is Osmosis? _________________________________________________________________________
What is the name of the special proteins that let water pass through? ______________________
aquaporins
Is this passive or active transport? ______________________________________
passive transport
