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The process by which glucose can pass through a cell membrane by combining with special carrier molecules is called?
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∙ 13y ago
Facilitated diffusion is the process by which glucose can pass through a cell membrane by combining with special carrier molecules.
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How are glucose molecules moved Ino a cell?
The glucose goes in through the membrane and can in or out either ways.
What are carrier proteins?
Carrier proteins performs the diffusion of different molecules. They found as an integral protein in the cell membrane. When its specific binding partner molecule binds to it, the protein undergoes conformational change that allows the transport of the solute molecule inside the cell. Glucose transporter is one of the carrier proteins.
Which protein is responsible for transport of glucose across cell membrane?
A family of proteins called GLUT carry glucose molecules across the cell membrane.
Why are useful molecules like glucose and other nutrients found in the filtrate along with urea and other wastes?
because glucose and other nutrients are small to filtrate through the filtration membrane and glucose is essential to be in the filtration membrane.
Why do oxygen molecules easily diffuse across a cell membrane while glucose molecules do not?
Oxygen molecules are small and nonpolar, which allows them to easily pass through the hydrophobic lipid bilayer of the cell membrane via simple diffusion. Glucose molecules, on the other hand, are larger and polar, making it more difficult for them to move through the nonpolar interior of the lipid bilayer. They require specific transport proteins or channels to facilitate their movement across the membrane.
Glucose and no other sugar is transported into cells by protein carrier molecules in the cell surface membrane. How do carrier molecules specifically recognize glucose?
the receptors on the protein carrier recognise glucose allowing it to enter the cell :)
What is the process by which molecules such as glucose are moved into cells along their concentration gradient with the help of membrane bound carrier proteins called?
The process by which molecules such as glucose are moved into cells along their concentration gradient with the help of membrane bound carrier proteins is called facilitated diffusion. Facilitated transport is passive and does not directly require chemical energy from ATP.
Carrier proteins transport glucose into a muscle cell.?
carrier proteins transport glucose into a muscle cell
Why oxygen molecules do not across a cell membrane while glucose molecules do not?
Glucose is too big to pass throught.
Why do molecules easily diffuse across a cell membrane while glucose molecules do not?
Glucose is too big to pass throught.
How do glucose molecules cross a plasma membrane?
Facilitated Diffusion
What explains why oxygen molecules diffuse across a cell membrane while glucose molecules do not?
Glucose is too big to pass through.
How are glucose molecules moved Ino a cell?
The glucose goes in through the membrane and can in or out either ways.
What are carrier proteins?
Carrier proteins performs the diffusion of different molecules. They found as an integral protein in the cell membrane. When its specific binding partner molecule binds to it, the protein undergoes conformational change that allows the transport of the solute molecule inside the cell. Glucose transporter is one of the carrier proteins.
What holds glucose and other food molecules?
the cell membrane or the cyplasm
Why do oxygen molecules easily diffuse across a cell membrane while protein molecules do not?
Cell membrane is semipermeable and oxygen molecules have size required for easy passqge while Glucose molecules do not have that size required for easy passage.
Which protein is responsible for transport of glucose across cell membrane?
A family of proteins called GLUT carry glucose molecules across the cell membrane.
