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Why is it important for digestive system functions that mucous membranes can secrete and absorb substances?
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The moucous membranes in your body protect certain organs, like the inside of your stomach, from various things. By being able to secrete and absorb substances, the organs these membranes are around are protected.
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Diffusion important to bacteria?
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Substances that are large, charged, or polar
How are highly folded membranes an advantage for the functions of cellular parts?
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sarcoplasmic reticulum
What are Transports that requires energy from ATP to move substances across membranes?
active transport
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they help transport some substances through the membrane
What lines the digestive and respiratory tract?
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Diffusion important to bacteria?
Bacteria are unicellular organisms which means they have only one cell to perform all the required functions suchs as growth, repair and reproduction. Because bacteria are to small to have a digestive system, bacteria relies on diffusion to get its nutrients and water. So therefore diffusion is important to bacteria
The components of membranes that account for most of their active functions are?
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What are membranes that allow only certain substances to pass through them?
Semi permeable membranes.
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proteins help control movement of substances through cell membranes.
What is a tissue membrane?
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What are sores that affect the mucous membranes of the digestive system?
Peptic Ulcers
What supervises the substances entering and exiting the cytoplasm?
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What function of vitamin A accounts for most of the body's needs for the vitamin?
Most important is Vision. Other functions include keeping your Skin and Mucous membranes healthy as well as regulating your Immune System
What are the important parts of the biological membranes?
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What does plasma membranes do?
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