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 FACILITATED TRANSPORT 

What is Facilitated Transport?

The Movement of Particles AGAINST the concentration gradient

  • 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

  • This process involves carrier proteins or protein channels 

  • 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 

  • A protein channel acts as a simple pathway for molecules to flow through it 

Carrier Protein and Protein Channel

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