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Name the process in which a carrier protein combines with a particular substance and moves it across the membrane.

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The solution names the process in which a carrier protein combines with a particular substance and movies it across the membrane.

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Facilitated diffusion.

Diffusion of solutes to which the membrane is not permeable may be through a highly-selective protein ...

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