1answer.
Ask question
Login Signup
Ask question
All categories
  • English
  • Mathematics
  • Social Studies
  • Business
  • History
  • Health
  • Geography
  • Biology
  • Physics
  • Chemistry
  • Computers and Technology
  • Arts
  • World Languages
  • Spanish
  • French
  • German
  • Advanced Placement (AP)
  • SAT
  • Medicine
  • Law
  • Engineering
Marizza181 [45]
2 years ago
14

3. How can we use what we know about cell membranes to treat disease?

Biology
1 answer:
laiz [17]2 years ago
5 0

The cell membrane slows the movement of water into or out of the cell and this is vital when treating diseases.

<h3>What is a cell membrane?</h3>

The cell membrane provides protection for a cell and also provides a fixed environment inside the cell. It transports nutrients into the cell and transports toxic substances out of the cell.

The cell membrane is simply one of the major barriers that pathogens need to conquer e.g. a virus first needs to attach itself to the cell membrane and injects its genetic material into the host cell before replication.

Estrogens passively diffuse across the plasma membrane and then bind to their receptor proteins in the cytoplasm of the target cells.

When estrogen enters the nucleus, it binds to the estrogen receptor, causing it to pair up and form a dimer. Then this dimer then binds to several dozen specific sites in the DNA, strategically placed next to the genes that need to be activated.

Learn more about cell membrane on:

brainly.com/question/1768729

#SPJ1

You might be interested in
A bird is flying over a field. What will most likely happen if a toxin causes the
myrzilka [38]

Answer:

B. The bird will stop flying because it will quickly use up its remaining

energy.

Explanation:

This is because the mitochondria is known as the power house of cells. Oxidative phosphorylation takes place in this organelle and it involves the conversion of ADP to ATP through the hydrogen ions(protons).

When the hydrogen ion channel is blocked, energy production in cells stop.

This is why the bird will stop flying as it would have used up its remaining energy and won’t have a new one to use to continue flying.

3 0
3 years ago
How would earths climate differ if water were not a polar molecule
ser-zykov [4K]
Water molecules bond to each other in a covalent bond where they stay connected. They also have poles like a magnet, making it a polar molecule.
If water is no longer polar the surface tension would lower to the point where ice can no longer float, the water would freeze, cooling the climate considerably.
7 0
3 years ago
What characteristic of water causes water to stick to the side of a test tube?
bazaltina [42]

Answer:

The characteristic of water that makes this liquid stick to the side of a test tube is called capillarity (Claim).

Explanation:

Water (H₂O) is a polar molecule with the ability to generate van der Waals forces, which is explained by the 4 hydrogen bonds it forms to bind to other substances. The consequence of the forces of the molecular bonds are four properties of H₂O, including surface tension, cohesion, adhesion and capillarity.

- <u>Claim</u>: The characteristic of water that makes this liquid stick to the side of a test tube is called capillarity.

- <u>Evidence</u>: Cohesion and adhesion of water are properties that come from the forces of the molecular bonds of water, and whose effect is the ability of water to wet surfaces and adhere to a tube that contains it, the latter due to capillarity. Capillarity also allows water to rise through the roots and stems of plants, through their thin vascular ducts.

- <u>Reasoning</u>: <u>cohesion</u> in water depends on the force of attraction between H₂O molecules, <u>adhesion</u> is the capacity of H₂O molecules to join other different molecules and —together with <u>surface tension</u>— make H₂O molecules close to the walls of a glass tube adhere to it, which represents capillarity.

The effect of capillarity is more evident when the test tube is of a smaller diameter, although capillarity and adhesion to its walls always exist, and to a greater degree than any other substance.

8 0
3 years ago
Which of the following best describes how the first organic molecules on the early Earth may have been formed?
GuDViN [60]
Wow! this si a huge question but analyzing all the datils from ths option you give me I have to say that C option: <span>Heat energy became trapped in the atmosphere by greenhouse gases and was used as an energy source in the building of macromolecules, is the one that gets closer to what the scientists have said recently. Take into account for example, the examinations of Dr. Stanley Millers. I think this can help you</span>
4 0
3 years ago
The picture represents a protein in the stomach being broken down into individual amino acids. Which is mixed with proteins to b
Alexeev081 [22]

Answer: The correct answer is Enzymes.

Process of digestion involves the breakdown of large complex molecules ( like carbohydrates, and proteins) present in the food into smaller soluble molecules ( like glucose and amino acids) that can be absorbed by bloodstream and transported to various body organs.

Protein in the stomach is broken down into amino acids with the help of enzyme called as pepsin ( a protease). It is an endo-peptidase that is produced in the stomach and helps in the digestion of proteins at acidic pH of the stomach ( 1.5 to 2).


3 0
3 years ago
Read 2 more answers
Other questions:
  • Which event occurs in telophase II? lining up of homologous pairs formation of two haploid daughter cells formation of four hapl
    10·2 answers
  • Would an experiment be used to test a hypothesis?
    5·2 answers
  • Explain 3 stages of info flow in the nervous system, and explain how they are connected by sensory neurons, interneurons, and mo
    15·1 answer
  • moment magnitude estimates the amount of energy an earthquake releases and is derived from the amount of displacement along​
    6·2 answers
  • Please help me if you know help me with 2 and 3 please
    7·1 answer
  • The specific structures or behavioral patterns that allow an organism to be successful in their environment are called
    6·1 answer
  • HELP!!
    14·1 answer
  • Which part of the DNA nucleotide contains the genetic code to make the protein?
    6·2 answers
  • What is the data of the carbon footprint caused due to the different day-to-day activities? Like what all day-to-day activities
    9·2 answers
  • Producers, such as those that make the foods that are shown below, make glucose during the process of photosynthesis.
    11·1 answer
Add answer
Login
Not registered? Fast signup
Signup
Login Signup
Ask question!