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Oxygen and carbon dioxide can diffuse through which organism's wall only staphylococcus bacteria or through other organisms also?

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Dr. Donald Alves answered

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All: Every cell must be able to take nutrients in, and send waste products out--including ours. Oxygen and water enter living cells and exit as carbon dioxide.

Answered 9/1/2013

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