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

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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 significantly reduced
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Answer:

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

Step-by-step explanation:

i just did the cst on apex

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