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Membranes
Membranes – much more than a sheet covering the cell. If you can understand the relevance of the fluidity of the membrane, the various roles the plasma membrane plays and the structures which allow it to do so, you’re well on the way to making the connections needed across the curriculum. And then there’s membrane transport…
Click on the shadowed images in the presentation to be taken to (many) animations and videos:
Essential Biology 2.4: Membranes
For lots more animations on cell strucure and function and cell transport, visit North Harris College.
Membranes
This is quite a long presentation covering membrane structure and function and passive transport, active transport and vesicle transport:
There are many links in the presentation – clicky clicky!
The internet is awash with decent animations and video clips for this topic – your best bet is to enter the search term “_____ transport swf” and see what comes up.
Transport in Angiospermophytes
Don’t forget the useful resources from the Plant and Soil Sciences eLibrary
Mineral uptakes from steve.gb.com
Cell turgor animations from kscience.com
Transport in plants from University of Alberta
Stomata from Terry Brown
Phloem transport from Kellogg
i-Biology 