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I need some help answering this essay question please...


Colostrum, the first milk that a mother produces, contains an abundance of antibodies (large protein molecules). By what membrane transport process would you suspect these maternal antibodies are transported across the cells lining a newborn's digestive tract and then into the bloodstream? Briefly explain.
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By transcytosis where vesicles are employed to intake the antibodies (and other macromolecules) on one side of the cell, draw them through it, and eject them on the other side.
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