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    The document discusses active transport processes in cells, including sodium potassium pumps, proton pumps, and cotransporters. It explains that active transport requires ATP and moves molecules against their concentration gradient. Specifically, it notes that sodium potassium pumps create a change in membrane potential in neurons vital to their function. The document also discusses how cholera causes severe diarrhea by releasing a toxin that leads to the loss of sodium and chlorine from intestinal cells into the lumen through active transport processes. Doctors treat cholera patients with a sodium-glucose solution which is reabsorbed using sodium-glucose cotransporters.

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    The document discusses active transport processes in cells, including sodium potassium pumps, proton pumps, and cotransporters. It explains that active transport requires ATP and moves molecules against their concentration gradient. Specifically, it notes that sodium potassium pumps create a change in membrane potential in neurons vital to their function. The document also discusses how cholera causes severe diarrhea by releasing a toxin that leads to the loss of sodium and chlorine from intestinal cells into the lumen through active transport processes. Doctors treat cholera patients with a sodium-glucose solution which is reabsorbed using sodium-glucose cotransporters.

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    Active Transport Worksheet

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    Prisca Derighetti
    The document discusses active transport processes in cells, including sodium potassium pumps, proton pumps, and cotransporters. It explains that active transport requires ATP and moves molecules against their concentration gradient. Specifically, it notes that sodium potassium pumps create a change in membrane potential in neurons vital to their function. The document also discusses how cholera causes severe diarrhea by releasing a toxin that leads to the loss of sodium and chlorine from intestinal cells into the lumen through active transport processes. Doctors treat cholera patients with a sodium-glucose solution which is reabsorbed using sodium-glucose cotransporters.

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    Name: __________________________________________

    Active Transport
    Extracellular Fluid

    Cytoplasm
    1. Using the diagram above, label a) sodium potassium pump, b) 5. How do proton pumps contribute to membrane potential?
    proton pump, and c) cotransport _________________________________________________________
    2. Define active transport. _________________________________________________________
    _________________________________________________________ 6. Using the figure above, how is cotransport used to move sucrose
    _________________________________________________________ across the membrane?
    3. Why is ATP required for active transport? _________________________________________________________
    _________________________________________________________
    _________________________________________________________
    _________________________________________________________
    7. Sodium potassium pumps are vital to neurons because they create a
    4. What would happen to the flow of molecules across a membrane if
    change in membrane potential. How do they accomplish this?
    ATP was broken down?
    _________________________________________________________
    _________________________________________________________
    _________________________________________________________
    _________________________________________________________
    _________________________________________________________

    © Getting Down With Science


    Active Transport
    In developing countries, contamination of food and water from cholera Intestinal cells
    is a serious problem. Cholera is a disease caused by the bacterium Vibrio
    cholerae. Cholera causes severe diarrhea, which leads to the loss of
    Toxin
    large amounts of water per day. Cholera works by releasing a toxin that
    attaches to the lining of the digestive system. This causes the release of Bacteria
    Lumen
    sodium and chlorine into the intestinal lumen (space inside intestines).

    8. Explain how the release of sodium and chlorine would lead to a loss
    of water in the intestines.

    __________________________________________________________
    __________________________________________________________

    __________________________________________________________

    9. In the intestinal cells there are sodium-glucose cotransporters. Knowing this, explain why doctors give patients recovering from cholera a
    sodium-glucose solution to drink.
    ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
    ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

    10. The image to the right illustrates a 11. The image to the right illustrates a

    portion of a neuron. What process portion of a white blood cell.

    is occurring? What process is occurring?

    ______________________________ ______________________________

    ______________________________ ______________________________

    © Getting Down With Science

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