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Ananya Shree

Class 11th
Biology
2 years ago

What are porins? What role do they play in diffusion?

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Muskan Anand

2 years ago

Porins are proteins that form huge pores in outer membranes of plastids, mitochondria and some bacteria, allowing molecules upto the size of small proteins to pass through. Thus porins facilitate diffusion.

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