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If oxygen atoms are in low concentration outside of a cell, but the cell requires more oxygen, how will the cell move the oxygen inside the membrane?

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Simple Diffusion across the Cell (Plasma) Membrane. The structure of the lipid bilayer allows small, uncharged substances such as oxygen and carbon dioxide, and hydrophobic molecules such as lipids, to pass through the cell membrane, down their concentration gradient, by simple diffusion.

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