Traveling Antibodies: Membrane Transport across the Placenta

Lesson Summary

This lesson is tied to the concepts of active and passive transport. Students apply an understanding of active and passive transport in a novel context: the transfer of antibodies from parent to child during development. Through this lesson, students not only gain an enhanced understanding of membrane transport, but they get to hear about the process of scientific discovery right from the scientist themself.

Upon completion of this lesson, students will be able to: 

• define passive transport, active transport, and selective permeability and apply these concepts to the movement of substances across the placenta.
• explain how scientists determined which substances pass through the placenta more easily.

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