Biology/Action Potential and Sodium-potassium pump
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Can you please explain Action Potential to me and how it travels across the sarcolemma.
I am also having a hard time understandin the sodium potassium pump!
Dear Enna,
It would take an extremely long email for me to completely describe the action potential or sodium/potassium pump to you, and it's not even really possible without pictures. Fortunately, there are some really excellent web sites that provide good tutorials and videos of these phenomena. For starters, try these:
http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/ap.html
and a nice video here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCasruJT-DU
with lots of links to related videos. YouTube is actually one of the best places to find nice, clear videos for lots of different scientific explanations.
Hope this helps.
Dana
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Dana Krempels, Ph.D.
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I can answer biology-related questions in the areas of evolution, zoology, botany, genetics, and ecology. But I don't answer homework questions or provide ideas for your science fair projects. So students please do your learning the right way by reading your text assignments and studying!
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At the University of Miami, I teach Evolution and Biodiversity, Botany, Zoology, Genetics, Ecology, and a variety of seminars (e.g., the Biology and Evolution of Human Gender Roles).
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I have a B.S. in Biology and an A.B. in English from the University of Southern California (1980).
I earned my Ph.D. in Biology in the area of evolutionary biology/visual physiology from the University of Miami in 1989.
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