"If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the precipitate." - Anon.

Supplementary videos

Plasma membrane: fluid mosaic model
Cystic Fibrosis Pulmonary Disease: genetic defect in membrane protein that transports chloride ions
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 1: amoeba uses pseudopods
Cell crawling 2: neutrophil on the chase
Cell crawling 3: fibroblasts on the loose
Organelle movement along microtubule: kinesin walking, powered by ATP
Proton pump inhibitors (active transport)
How a flu virus invades your body: by binding to membrane proteins
Endocytosis of LDL Cholesterol: to make new membranes
Endosymbiosis ; evolution of mitochondrion and chloroplast
Fecal Microbiota Transplantation: symbiotic bacteria to the rescue

Extra credit readings

• What's that stuff? soap bubbles Chemical & Engineering News 4/28/03
• Mitochondrial Inheritance Genetic Drift Winter/94
• 'Mitochondrial Eve': Mother of All Humans Lived 200,000 Years Ago ScienceDaily 8/17/10
• Reverse Osmosis Moves Forward. Environmental Health Perspectives Jan 2005
• What causes alewives to die off in great numbers? University of Wisconsin Sea Grant Institute 2013
• Fecal Transplants: They Work, the Regulations Don’t Wired.com 12/9/11
• A Map Of All The Microbes On Your Body NPR 6/13/12

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