If You Experimentally Increase the Concentration of Na⁺ Outside a Cell

question 55

Multiple Choice

If you experimentally increase the concentration of Na⁺ outside a cell while maintaining other ion concentrations as they were, what would happen to the cell's membrane potential?

• A) The membrane potential would become more negative.
• B) The membrane potential would become more positive.
• C) The membrane potential would be unaffected.
• D) The answer depends on the thermodynamic potential.

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