🔬 Diffusion

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<p>The diffusion of phage virions generally is slower than that of individual molecules, even whole enzymes, due to the much larger size of virions, which generally are multi-protein and nucleic acid structures. Bacteria, in turn, generally diffuse more slowly than virons due to the typically much larger size of the bacterial cells. In general, rates of diffusion in fact are inversely proportional to size, with larger molecules, objects, or particles diffusing more slowly than smaller things.

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