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What is the difference between intracellular and extracellular digestion?
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Intracellular = inside the cell.
Extracellular = outside the cell.
Digestion = chemical breakdown of matter into components that the body can use.
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- Intracellular- food is broken down when it is in the cell (engulfed by phagocytosis), nutrients are absorbed.
Done by sponges
- Extracellular- food is broken down (with help of enzymes?) before nutrients are absorbed by/into cells.
Done by most mammals, simple animals (such as flat worms) have a gastrovascular cavity, more complex mammals (such as humans) have an alimentary canal.
In humans is takes place in different compartments (stomach, small intestine).
Extracellular dig. allows mammals to consume larger prey.
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What is the Difference between intracellular enzyme and extracellular enzyme?
An intracellular enzyme reacts inside the cell body while the extracellular enzyme affects the outside part of the cell.
What process is called in which water moves between the intracellular and extracellular compartments?
osmosis
What are the solutes that maintain balance between intracellular and extracellular fluid?
sodium, chloride, & potassium
Difference between intracellular fluid and extracellular fluid?
Cytoplasm is the inner part of the cell or its the contents of the cell, which is surrounded by plasma membrane. While extracellular fluid is the fluid located outside of the cells and divided into 1.plasma in the blood vessel. 2.interstitial fluid between the cells.
Is intracellular space same as intercellular space?
intracellular pathogens can only replicate inside a host cell, whereas extracellular pathogens can replicate independent of the host
Why is serum potassium measured rather than intracellular potassium?
Serum potassium concentration relates both to the internal balance between intracellular and extracellular fluids and the external balance determining the total body potassium. hope this helped please add additional informarion
Intercellular and intracellular?
Intracellular proteins are all the proteins that travel in between cells. It may also be termed as secretory proteins. they formed in cytoplasm of a cells and secreted out by Golgi body vesicles after maturation. this in turn has a role out of the cells may act as a hormone or messenger to trigger a response in a distant tissue. They carried by blood stream to the destination.
Is there a difference between adult and child digestion?
no, there is not much of a difference.
What is the difference between digestion of heterotrophs and saprotrophs?
Heterotrophs- digestion occurs inside the body. Saprotrophs- digestion occurs outside of body.
What does the cell memberance do?
The cell membrane acts as a barrier between the extracellular fluid (ECF) and the intracellular fluid (ICF) allowing the cell to selectively control its internal environment so that it can carry out complicated biochemical reactions in a stable environment.
What is the difference between mechanical digestion in the mouth?
That's just called chewing.
Do all substances pass freely between the intracellular and extracellular fluids through a phospholipid bilayer?
No, the membrane is known as semi-permeable because some substances (such as water) can pass freely through - whereas others (such as ions) cannot.
