Exam 5: Membrane Dynamics

Saturation occurs when

If a 10% sucrose solution is separated from a 20% sucrose solution by a membrane permeable to sucrose, in which direction will net diffusion of sucrose take place?

The ability of a carrier molecule to transport only one specific molecule or a group of closely related molecules is called ________.

When you eat a large meal and your body absorbs a lot of glucose and that makes its way to the interstitial fluid before going into the cell.100% of the glucose should be absorbed into the cell from the interstitial fluid.Why does nearly all of the glucose enter the cell, rather than only half of it?