Title: Activity ahead of lesson: Cellular Junction
Course: Biochemistry > Section: Week 3 - Unit 1_4: Cellular Juction

Purpose:

How do you communicate with your neighbors? Do you have a nice, open channel of communication? Are you strongly bonded together? Do you try to keep yourselves apart by blocking each others’ view?  Neighboring cells must also interact in one way or another. Sometimes they have open channels of communication, and other times they simply hold each other tightly. Aw, how sweet! This lesson covers three types of cell junctions in animal cells.

Over to you:

Using your laptop or tablet, follow the link on cellular junction

Be certain to note anything that you don’t understand

Activity:

File the table below to compare the different types of cellular junction and print a copy.

Junction | Adhesion type | CAM * associated | Cytoskeletal filaments | Function

CAM : Cell adhesion molecules

Bring the copy in class.