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Discuss how active symporters and antiporters differ from facilitative symporters and antiporters. Discuss why it would be...

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Discuss how active symporters and antiporters differ fromfacilitative symporters and antiporters.
Discuss why it would be wrong to categorize the Na+/K+ ATPaseas a coupled active transporter instead of as a pump.
Explain how the movement of Na+ ions by Na+/K+ ATPase differsfrom the movement of Na+ ions by the Na+/glucose symporter.

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Active transport and facilitative transport are two mechanisms of transport of molecules across the plasma membrane As plasma membrane is selectively permeable so ions and polar molecules are unable to cross from it Thus facilitative and active symportors and antiporters play a key role in the passage of these molecules across the plasma membrane Facilitative symporters and antiporters    See Answer
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