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How do small food molecules such as glucose get from ur gut to the cells ​

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The cells along the small intestine use primary active transport to ensure that glucose only flows one way: from digested food to the inside of cells. Active transport proteins use adenosine triphosphate (ATP), the cell’s energy storage molecule, to pump glucose into the cell, either with or against the concentration gradient.

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