permeabiity
permeability
permeability
permeabiity
permeabiity
The cell feature that determines whether molecules can cross the membrane is its selectively permeable nature. This property allows the membrane to control the passage of substances based on factors such as size, polarity, and charge. Membrane proteins also play a crucial role in facilitating or restricting the movement of specific molecules across the lipid bilayer.
permeability
The feature of a membrane that determines whether molecules can cross is its selective permeability. This characteristic arises from the lipid bilayer structure, which allows certain small, nonpolar molecules to pass through freely while restricting larger, polar, or charged molecules. Additionally, specific transport proteins facilitate the movement of these restricted molecules across the membrane, either passively or actively. Thus, the composition and arrangement of the membrane's components play a crucial role in regulating molecular transport.
They must either be lipid soluble (e.g. steroids) or very small (e.g. ions).
mass
The speed doesn't necessarily determine the permeability, but the size does. Smaller molecules such as O2 can easily enter the cell while CO2 leaves the cell. There are other criteria that also determines whether a molecule can pass through the plasma membrane such as its solubility. Fat soluble molecules such as steroids can easily pass through the membrane.
Lipid solubility determines if it will diffuse across. The presence of specific protein carrier molecules determines if it will be transported across the membrane.
One factor is the channel of the molecule, without them the ions and polar molecules would not be able to pass across. Another factor is the size of the molecule, they determine how fast it will defuse.