1. Explain cell motility. Include lamellipodia, actin, plasma membrane, and contact inhibition. 2. Describe the five variable influences inherent to cell culture. **Not long easy, should be brief and straight forward.** Solution 1. Cellular motility is the spontaneous movement of cells from one location to another by consumption of energy. This term encompasses certain types of movements like swimming, crawling, gliding, and swarming. The lamellipodia is a distinct region of the cell that facilitates cell motility and various mechanosensing mechanisms. Lamellipodium assembly can be described in a series of defined steps, many of which involve processes related to cytoskeletal dynamics, and which utilize several “functional modules”. The actin cytoskeleton plays an essential role in the formation and function of the lamellipodia. Lamellipodial actin filaments are highly dynamic, especially compared to those of the lamella and it is due to their dynamic nature, and constant cycles of actin filament polymerization and actin filament depolymerization that the protrusive force required to stretch the membrane and allow the lamellipodia to spread, is generated..