Cell Movement help.?

Question

What are the ways that materials move into the cells?
I know that there's diffusion...
Does osmosis and active/Passive transport count as movements?

Answer 1

Active and passive transport are categories of movements in and out of a cell. Some actual ways are:

Passive:
1. Diffusion between the phospholipids of the plasma membrane. This also includes osmosis because osmosis is a type of diffusion.
2. Facilitated diffusion through special channel proteins.

Active:
1. Transport through carrier proteins that grab the molecules and use energy to change shape and fling the molecules out on the other side.
2. Endocytosis and exocytosis - both forms of bulk transport during which larger particles can pass through the plasma membrane ... and involving vacuoles