Lesson 3: Diffusion

What is diffusion?

Diffusion is the net movement of particles across a membrane.

  • They move from a region of high concentration to low concentration.
  • Diffusion is driven by a gradient using either Gibbs free energy or a chemical gradient.
    • You don't need to know much about Gibbs free energy or chemical gradients for Biology
    • You can skip the next lesson if you want to stick to just specification knowledge.