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umka21 [38]
3 years ago
8

Why can oxygen diffuse across a cell membrane but a protein cannot ?

Biology
2 answers:
Brilliant_brown [7]3 years ago
6 0

Answer:

it is proteins are too large !!!!APEX!!!

Explanation:

i just did the cst on apex

cestrela7 [59]3 years ago
4 0
Oxygen is much smaller than a protein. proteins are too large, A protein cannot diffuse across a cell membrane because as the pore radius of the membrane approaches the protein radius, the mobility of the protein is <span>significantly reduced</span>
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