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Question
What are ‘aquaporins’? How does presence of aquaporins affect osmosis?
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Solution
Integral membrane proteins are nothing but Aquaproteins. They belong to a large family of Major Intrinsic Proteins (MIP). Aquaporins form pores in membranes of biological cells. Aquaporins hasten the rate of osmosis.
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