An artificial cell consisting of an aqueous solution enclosed in a selectively permeable membrane (but with no cell wall) is immersed in a beaker containing an aqueous solution. The outside environment concentration consists of 0.01 M glucose and the inside of the cell has a concentration of 5.0 M glucose. The plasma membrane is permeable to water and monosaccharides, but impermeable to the disaccharides. Complete the following for the image below: Is the
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An artificial cell consisting of an aqueous solution enclosed in a selectively permeable membrane (but with no cell wall) is immersed in a beaker containing an aqueous solution. The outside environment concentration consists of 0.01 M glucose and the inside of the cell has a concentration of 5.0 M glucose. The plasma membrane is permeable to water and monosaccharides, but impermeable to the disaccharides. Complete the following for the image below:
Is the glucose going down or against its concentration gradient? Is the movement of the solute in the cell going out of the cell?
Down...Yes
Down...No
Against...Yes
Against...No
Glucose is a monosaccharide that is it cannot be hydrolyzed further. The movement of solvent molecule from its high concentration but with low concentration of solute towards low concentration of solvent and high concentration of solute is called osmosis.
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