To try and help although thee aren't any answers i would say... if they were to literally conduct a field study such as this, much pollution would occur, Millions of fish would die as of plants also. And would over-all Lake Michigan would never be the same again.
Epidermal tissue as this is what makes up the lining
Gates function in a similar way as cell membrane :
cell membrane seperate the external enivironment from the cell while gate even seperate the external environment from the house
cell membrane controls the exit and entry of the cell, gate controls the entry and exit of the house
Molecules that cannot cross the membrane bind to receptors in the membrane. When the signal binds to a receptor changes it's shape. Other Molecules inside the cell respond to the chainging shape of the receptor.