Facilitated diffusion is a passive transport mechanism in which carrier proteins shuttle molecules across the cell membrane without using the cellâs energy supplies.
Linda Brown was born on February 20, 1942, in Topeka, Kansas, to Leola and Oliver Brown. Though she and her two younger sisters grew up in an ethnically diverse neighborhood, Linda was forced to walk across railroad tracks and take a bus to grade school despite there being a school four blocks away from her home.
Monroe was born Norma Jeane Mortenson at the Los Angeles County Hospital on June 1, 1926, as the third child of Gladys Pearl Monroe (1902 â1984), a negative-cutter at Columbia Pictures. Gladys' older children, Robert (1917â1933) and Berniece (born 1919), were from her first marriage to John Newton Baker in 1917â1923.