0
What else can I help you with?
How do aquaporins facilitate the movement of water across cell membranes?
Aquaporins are specialized proteins that act as channels in cell membranes, allowing water molecules to pass through. These proteins create a pathway for water to move across the membrane, enabling efficient and rapid transport of water into and out of cells.
How do charged particles move across membranes?
Charged particles move across membranes through the process of facilitated diffusion or active transport. Facilitated diffusion involves the movement of particles through protein channels, while active transport requires energy to move particles against their concentration gradient.
What is the process that utilizes a carrier to move materials across the plasma membrane in the direction of the concentration gradient that does not use ATP?
Active Transport
How do ions diffuse across cell membranes?
Ions diffuse across cell membranes through protein channels or transporters that allow them to move from areas of high concentration to areas of low concentration. This process is known as passive transport and does not require energy from the cell.
In what organelles does osmosis occur?
Osmosis primarily occurs in the cell's membrane (plasma membrane) and in the membrane-bound organelles such as the endoplasmic reticulum, Golgi apparatus, and vacuoles, where water molecules move across the membranes to maintain the cell's internal balance.
How fluids move across capillary membranes?
Osmosis.
How do aquaporins facilitate the movement of water across cell membranes?
Aquaporins are specialized proteins that act as channels in cell membranes, allowing water molecules to pass through. These proteins create a pathway for water to move across the membrane, enabling efficient and rapid transport of water into and out of cells.
What type of waves move across the direction of travel?
Transverse waves will move across the direction of travel.
What direction do molecules of osmosis move?
Osmosis is not a molecule. It is the flow of water through cell membranes from areas of high concentration to areas of low concentration.
In water waves water particles move in?
Water particles (molecules) move transversely to the direction of propagation of the wave. That means that as the wave moves out across the water, which is its direction of propagation, the water molecules move up and down (transversely) to create the crests and troughs of the wave.
Which of the following processes cause substances to move across membranes and doesent require energy ATP?
diffusion or osmosis (diffusion of water)
What passive process that move substances across membranes?
Diffusion ,osmosis
What are Passive processes that move substances across membranes?
Diffusion ,osmosis
How do larger molecules move across epithelial membranes in capillaries?
by exocytosis and endocytosis
What moves across the membranes by osmosis?
Water molecules move across membranes by osmosis, from an area of lower solute concentration to an area of higher solute concentration to achieve equilibrium. This process helps maintain proper balance of fluids inside and outside of cells.
Why is it easier to move materials across membranes down a concentration gradient?
osmotic pressure
What would happen to a cell if materials could not move across the cell membranes?
it will died
