{"id":857,"date":"2024-04-18T19:50:42","date_gmt":"2024-04-18T19:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/workhouse.sweetdishy.com\/?p=857"},"modified":"2024-04-18T19:50:42","modified_gmt":"2024-04-18T19:50:42","slug":"cell-membrane-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/workhouse.sweetdishy.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/18\/cell-membrane-2\/","title":{"rendered":"cell\u00a0membrane"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><span style=\"color: rgb(26, 26, 26); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; white-space-collapse: collapse; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\">A thin\u00a0<\/span>membrane<span style=\"color: rgb(26, 26, 26); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; white-space-collapse: collapse; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\">, typically between 4 and 10 nanometers (nm; 1 nm = 10<\/span><sup style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.8em; color: rgb(26, 26, 26); font-family: Georgia, serif; white-space-collapse: collapse; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\">\u22129<\/sup><span style=\"color: rgb(26, 26, 26); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; white-space-collapse: collapse; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\">\u00a0metre) in thickness, surrounds every living cell, delimiting the cell from the\u00a0<\/span>environment<span style=\"color: rgb(26, 26, 26); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; white-space-collapse: collapse; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\">\u00a0around it. Enclosed by this cell membrane (also known as the plasma membrane) are the cell\u2019s\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"md-dictionary-link md-dictionary-tt-off mw\" data-term=\"constituents\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; border-bottom: 2px dotted var(--blue); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; white-space-collapse: collapse; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none !important;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/constituents\" data-type=\"MW\">constituents<\/a><span style=\"color: rgb(26, 26, 26); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; white-space-collapse: collapse; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\">, often large, water-soluble, highly charged molecules such as\u00a0<\/span>proteins<span style=\"color: rgb(26, 26, 26); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; white-space-collapse: collapse; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\">,\u00a0<\/span>nucleic acids<span style=\"color: rgb(26, 26, 26); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; white-space-collapse: collapse; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\">,\u00a0<\/span>carbohydrates<span style=\"color: rgb(26, 26, 26); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; white-space-collapse: collapse; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\">, and substances involved in cellular\u00a0<\/span>metabolism<span style=\"color: rgb(26, 26, 26); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; white-space-collapse: collapse; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\">. Outside the cell, in the surrounding water-based\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"md-dictionary-link md-dictionary-tt-off mw\" data-term=\"environment\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; border-bottom: 2px dotted var(--blue); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; white-space-collapse: collapse; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none !important;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/environment\" data-type=\"MW\">environment<\/a><span style=\"color: rgb(26, 26, 26); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; white-space-collapse: collapse; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\">, are\u00a0<\/span>ions<span style=\"color: rgb(26, 26, 26); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; white-space-collapse: collapse; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\">,\u00a0<\/span>acids<span style=\"color: rgb(26, 26, 26); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; white-space-collapse: collapse; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\">, and\u00a0<\/span>alkalis<span style=\"color: rgb(26, 26, 26); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; white-space-collapse: collapse; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\">\u00a0that are toxic to the cell, as well as nutrients that the cell must absorb in order to live and grow. The cell membrane, therefore, has two functions: first, to be a barrier keeping the constituents of the cell in and unwanted substances out and, second, to be a gate allowing transport into the cell of essential nutrients and movement from the cell of waste products.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":847,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/workhouse.sweetdishy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/cell.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/workhouse.sweetdishy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/workhouse.sweetdishy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/workhouse.sweetdishy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workhouse.sweetdishy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workhouse.sweetdishy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=857"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/workhouse.sweetdishy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":858,"href":"https:\/\/workhouse.sweetdishy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857\/revisions\/858"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workhouse.sweetdishy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/workhouse.sweetdishy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workhouse.sweetdishy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workhouse.sweetdishy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}