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Oxygen molecules diffuse across the alveolar membrane in the lungs into the bloodstream. This is where gas exchange occurs, with oxygen moving from the alveoli into capillaries surrounding the alveoli.

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What walls does the oxygen and nutrients diffuse?

Oxygen and nutrients diffuse across the walls of capillaries in the bloodstream into tissues and cells in the body. This allows for the delivery of essential molecules to support cellular function and metabolism.


How do you use diffuse in sentence?

Oxygen molecules diffuse across the membrane.


What two important gases diffuse across the respiratory membrane?

Oxygen and carbon dioxide are the two important gases that diffuse across the respiratory membrane. Oxygen moves from the alveoli into the bloodstream, while carbon dioxide moves from the bloodstream into the alveoli to be exhaled.


What molecule is able to easily diffuse across the cell's membrane?

Carbon dioxide, oxygen and some nonpolar molecules diffuse easily.


What explains why oxygen molecules diffuse across a cell membrane while glucose molecules do not?

Glucose is too big to pass through.


Name 3 particles that are small enough to diffuse freely across the cell membrane?

H2O CO2 O2 hope this helps


What are 2 substances that diffuse freely across a cell membrane?

CO2, H2O, and O2 can all diffuse across a cell membrane. Also, small polar molecules (uncharged) and hydrocarbons easily diffuse across.


Why can oxygen diffuse across a cell membrane but a protein?

Its too large


What large molecules need help getting across cell membrane?

In general, molecules that cannot diffuse across the cell membrane are either very large, such as starches and fats, or very polar.


What would two substances do in everyday life that were spread around by diffusion?

Perfume molecules diffuse in the air to spread their scent across a room. Oxygen molecules in the air diffuse into our blood cells for respiration to provide energy for our bodies.


Which organ of the body diffuses oxygen into the bloodstream?

The lungs diffuse oxygen into the bloodstream. Oxygen from the air we breathe is absorbed into the bloodstream through the walls of the alveoli in the lungs, where it is then carried by red blood cells to be delivered to the body's tissues.


Why does oxygen diffuse into the blood instead of the active transport?

Oxygen is a small molecule that can easily diffuse across cell membranes, including the membranes of red blood cells. This passive diffusion process is faster and more efficient than active transport for molecules like oxygen that are able to freely move across cell membranes.