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Oxygen is at a higher concentration outside the cell compared to the inside of the cell, and the cell membrane is permeable to oxygen. Based on the laws of diffusion, which way will oxygen molecules move? O oxygen will not move O oxygen will move from inside the cell to the outside O oxygen will move from outside the cell to the inside 

          Oxygen is at a higher concentration outside the cell compared to the inside of the cell, and the cell membrane is permeable to oxygen. Based on the laws of
diffusion, which way will oxygen molecules move?
O oxygen will not move
O oxygen will move from inside the cell to the outside
O oxygen will move from outside the cell to the inside
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Oxygen is at a higher concentration outside the cell compared to the inside of the cell, and the cell membrane is permeable to oxygen. Based on the laws of diffusion, which way will oxygen molecules move? O oxygen will not move O oxygen will move from inside the cell to the outside O oxygen will move from outside the cell to the inside

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Oxygen is at a higher concentration outside the cell compared to the inside of the cell, and the cell membrane is permeable to oxygen. Based on the laws of diffusion, which way will oxygen molecules move? - Oxygen will not move - Oxygen will move from inside the cell to the outside - Oxygen will move from outside the cell to the inside
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00:01 If oxygen is more concentrated outside the salvin in, a, the oxygen will move in by active transport.
00:08 B, the oxygen will diffuse out.
00:10 C, there'll be no net movement of the oxygen.
00:12 D, the oxygen will diffuse in.
00:14 Or e, the process of osmosis will be used to achieve equilibrium.
00:19 So we're looking at three types of movement here.
00:22 We have diffusion, also known as passive transport.
00:25 We have active transport.
00:27 And we have osmosis.
00:28 Osmosis is the type of passive, but specifically it is water.
00:33 So it's not going to be the process of osmosis here, because oxygen is perfectly capable of moving in or out of a cell by diffusion.
00:43 Okay, will it be active? well, we have a cell, and let's say the concentration of oxygen inside, let's put it at one and two.
00:53 So two is larger.
00:55 Would there be active transport to get into the cell? well, no.
01:02 Active transport is used to go down a concentration, up a concentration gradient.
01:07 So active is putting in energy to go up a concentration gradient.
01:13 And we just don't have to do that right now, because to go into the cell would be to go down the concentration gradient...
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