facilitated diffusion
Cards (20)
- What do charged particles and large molecules struggle to pass through the cell membrane?
- What role do intrinsic protein molecules play in the cell membrane?
- What are the two types of proteins that facilitate diffusion?
- How do channel proteins assist in facilitated diffusion?
- What is a characteristic of each channel protein?
- What are gated channels in the context of channel proteins?
- What do carrier proteins facilitate the diffusion of?
- What happens when a molecule attaches to a carrier protein?
- What is the energy requirement for facilitated diffusion?
- How does the concentration gradient affect the rate of diffusion?
- What limits the rate of diffusion at higher concentration differences?
- Why is facilitated diffusion not affected by respiratory inhibitors?
- What is co-transport in facilitated diffusion?
- What is the significance of sodium-glucose co-transport?
- Where does sodium-glucose co-transport occur?
- What happens when sodium ions and glucose attach to a carrier protein?
- What occurs after sodium ions and glucose enter the cell?
- How are sodium ions pumped out of epithelial cells?
- What is the effect of pumping sodium ions out of the cell?
- How does glucose leave the epithelial cells?