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Glucose is a supplier of energy to the cells. Cells use the glucose as well as fats for fuel.
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∙ 8y agoWe use glucose and oxygen to provide energy in the form of ATP.
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There is a need for glucose inside a cell but the glucose molecule is too large to pass through the cell membrane How does the cell solve this problem?
It transports the glucose through transport proteins.
What is the source of energy for the cell?
glucose
Describe how glucose molecules enter a cell by facilitated diffusion?
protein
What does a choloroplast do in a plant cell?
They are the sites of photosynthesis.They produce glucose for cell.
How insulin signals a cell to take in glucose from the blood?
The insulin binds to insulin receptors on the surface of muscle or liver cells. This opens up little holes in the cell membrane called glucose transporters. Glucose flows through the glucose transporter due to the concentration gradient of glucose being higher in the extracellular environment. This is called diffusion. The membrane only stays permeable (open) to glucose so long as there is insulin bound to the receptors on the cell surface. Eventually the insulin is released and the glucose transporter closes. The cell then starts to digest the glucose via complicated processes called glycolysis and oxidative phosphorylation.
What cell is most dependent on a supply of glucose is?
wat cell is most dependent on glucose
What is the body's most readily available fuel supply?
The tiny power plants of the cell need a ready supply of glucose to function. Other carbohydrates are broken down into glucose.
Glucose is a molecule that can move across the cell membrane if the concentration of glucose is high or inside the cell than outside the cell then what will happen by the process of diffusion?
glucose molecules will diffuse out of the cell. apex
Does Glycolysis supply energy or store energy?
Glycolysis is the first step in releasing energy from glucose and therefore is supplying energy to the cell.
What role do carbohydrates play in the health of a cell?
Cells are supplied with the energy they need to function from carbohydrates.
How can a cell that consumes glucose speed up its intake of glucose from the environment?
If there are more carrier proteins, more glucose can enter the cell. This is because the glucose enters the cell through facilitated diffusion.
What cell does glucose partly break down in?
The Mitochondria in a cell breaks down the Glucose
What process does NOT help supply oxygen and glucose to the cells of the human body?
Excretion, because vacuoles help remove un-needed materials from the cell.
If the concentration of glucose is higher inside the cell than the cell then outside the cell then what will happen by the process of diffusion?
Water will move out of the cell. Glucose will not move into the cell without the help of a helper molecule. Glucose molecules will diffuse into the cell.(APEX)
If the concentration of glucose in the water outside the cell is higher than the concentration inside the cell what will happen?
Water will move out of the cell. Glucose will not move into the cell without the help of a helper molecule. Glucose molecules will diffuse into the cell.(APEX)
There is a need for glucose inside a cell but the glucose molecule is too large to pass through the cell membrane. How does the cell solve this problem?
It transports the glucose through transport proteins.
There is a need for glucose inside a cell but the glucose molecule is too large to pass through the cell membrane How does the cell solve this problem?
It transports the glucose through transport proteins.
