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FACILITATED TRANSPORT
What is Facilitated Transport?
The Movement of Particles AGAINST the concentration gradient
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Facilitated transport is a method of passive transport that allows LARGE or POLAR particles to move from a place of low concentration to a place of high concentration
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This process involves carrier proteins or protein channels
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A carrier protein binds to a molecule and this allows it to change shape to release this molecule on the other side of the cell membrane
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A protein channel acts as a simple pathway for molecules to flow through it

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