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Q: What is the special name given to water diffusing through a membrane?
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What is the process by which tiny particles can pass through the cell membrane?

Small particles can pass through the cell membrane by simple diffusion. If the particles are water, the process is given a special name: osmosis.


How do liquids go through cell membrane?

Fluid moves into the cell through a passive process known as diffusion. Osmosis is the special name given to the diffusion of water across the semi-permeable membrane of the cell.


What is the diffusion of water across the semipermeable?

Diffusion of water across a semipermeable membrane is a type of simple diffusion given the special name of osmosis.


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How does nutrients cross plasma membrane?

Things like oxygen, CO2 and lipids cross the membrane with simple diffusion. Water can cross the membrane with osmosis when the water moves through a channel protein in the plasma membrane. Glucose, potassium, sodium etc. moves through a carrier protein in the membrane with the process of active movement. In the process of active movement energy is needed and it is given by the glucose or ATP from the cell.


What is the diffusion of water across a semipermeable memberane?

Diffusion of water across a semipermeable membrane is a type of simple diffusion given the special name of osmosis.


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Why are cellular transport and cellular communication factors that limit cell size?

The cellular transport and cellular communication factor that limit the cell size because all the materials that go in and out of a cell must pass through the plasma membrane.


What term is given to the cells which do not have nuclear membrane?

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What is the number of molecules that cross the membrane in a given length of time?

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Macromolecular diffusion and biological membrane are samething?

It is two completely different things. Diffusion of macromolecules is random movement of macromolecules given by their energy, temperature. And biological membrane is a lipidic membrane.


Which of the following are possible functions of the glycoproteins in the plasme membrane?

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