If You Experimentally Increase the Concentration of K+ Inside a Cell

question 43

Multiple Choice

If you experimentally increase the concentration of K+ inside 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 less negative.
• C) The membrane potential would remain the same.
• D) The membrane potential would first become more negative and then less negative.

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Definitions:

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Spirochete

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