What do sodium/potassium pumps do with regard to sodium?     pump it out of the cell     attract sodium to

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  1. What do sodium/potassium pumps do with regard to sodium?

       

    pump it out of the cell

       

    attract sodium to them (since they are negatively charged), keeping sodium outside the cell

       

    pump it into the cell

       

    attract sodium to them (since they are negatively charged), keeping sodium inside the cell

     

    2) 

    A cup of sugar is dumped into a gallon of hot water. After 30 minutes, we will expect that the process of ________ will ensure that the sugar molecules are evenly distributed throughout the water.

       

    diffusion

       

    electrostatic pressure

       

    gap traversion

       

    reverse entropy

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