"there are essentially four basic ways a substance can get through the plasma membrane. what are they? if you get specific, you will end up listing six. that's fine too."

phagocytosis, pinocytosis, endocytosis, mediated transport (carrier proteins), channel proteins, passive transport (diffusion and facilitated diffusion), are all methods for things to enter the cell. so my four would be which of these?

There are four basic modes of plasma transportation, these include: diffusion, osmosis, facilitated diffusion and active transport. Diffusion, osmosis and facilitated diffusion are passive transport because, their movement through the plasma membrane does not require energy while transportation through active transport requires energy.

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Proteins are the workhorses of the cell, controlling virtually every reaction within as well as providing structure and serving as signals to other cells. proteins are long chains of  amino acids  , and the exact sequence of the amino acids determines the final structure and function of the protein. instructions for that sequence are encoded in  genes  . to make a particular protein, a messenger ribonucleic acid (mrna) copy is made from the gene (in the process called  transcription  ), and the mrna is transported to the  ribosome  . protein synthesis, also called  translation  , begins when the two ribosomal subunits link onto the mrna. this step, called initiation, is followed by elongation, in which successive amino acids are added to the growing chain, brought in by transfer rnas (trnas). in this step, the ribosome reads the  nucleotides  of mrna three by three, in units called  codons  , and matches each to three nucleotides on the trna, called the anticodon. finally, during termination, the ribosome unbinds from the mrna, and the  amino acid  chain goes on to be processed and folded to make the final, functional protein