Animal cell membranes are a semi-permeable membrane.
The cell membrane is called semi-permeable because it allows certain substances to pass through while blocking others based on their size and properties.
A membrane that only allows certain substances to cross is called a selectively permeable or semi-permeable membrane. It allows some molecules or ions to pass through while blocking others based on characteristics like size, charge, or solubility.
Osmosis can only occur if water travels through the semi-permeable membrane. This will cause water to cross the lipid bilayer.
DefinitionnounA membrane that is selectively permeable, i.e. being permeable to only certain molecules and not to all molecules.SupplementAn example of such membrane is the cell membrane wherein it allows passage of only certain types of molecules by diffusion and occasionally by facilitated diffusion.by~paula razon (facebook)!!!
A semi-permeable membrane. It could be compared to dialysis tubing.
A semi-permeable membrane is a membrane which allows cells to pass through it. The cells which make up the membrane of the inside of the cheek of the human mouth, for example, are semi-permeable. This allows things, like nicotine for example, to be absorbed through the membrane walls while the walls maintain structural integrity.
Plasma membrane or cell membrane is a semi-permeable thing.It is the reason due to which this membrane is called semi-permeable membrane
The plasma membrane.
Such a membrane is said to be selectively permeable or semi-permeable.
a semi permeable membrane
semi permeable membrane is semi-permeable or not completely permeable...it allows particles of a certain shap or size flow through but other shapes that are large or snaller cant fit through.
Cell membrane is elastic and transparent. It can be impermeable, permeable, semi-permeable or selectively permeable. In humans the plasma membrane is selectively permeable that is it allows entry to certain substance.
A semi-permeable membrane, permeable to gases and small, non-charged particles.
A semi-permeable membrane, permeable to gases and small, non-charged particles.
It means that is/can be a door to a cell 'hence semi permeable membrane? (or to anything)
plasma
A semi permeable plasmodial membrane