The patient has been diagnosed with no Golgi apparatus in the cells. Does this present a problem with the diffusion of glucose across the plasma membrane?

1) No, this does not present a problem because the Golgi apparatus has nothing to do with the maintenance of the phospholipid bilayer and the diffusion of glucose into the cell.

2) Yes, this presents a problem because the Golgi apparatus packages up the transport proteins to be taken to the membrane and embedded in the phospholipid membrane to assist glucose diffusing into cell by active transport. Glucose would not be able to diffuse into the cell.

3) Yes, this presents a problem because the Golgi apparatus packages up the transport proteins to be taken to the membrane and embedded in the phospholipid membrane to assist glucose diffusing along its concentration gradient into the cell. Glucose would not be able to diffuse into the cell.