Instead, the energy is provide by the concentration gradient, which means that molecules are transported from higher to lower concentrations, into or out of the cell. The carrier proteins bind to glucose, which causes them to change shape and translocate the glucose from one side of the membrane to the other. Red blood cells use facilitated diffusion to absorb glucose.
With the Whig Party in ruins, Lincoln joined the new Republican Partyâformed largely in opposition to slaveryâs extension into the territoriesâin 1858 and ran for the Senate again that year (he had campaigned unsuccessfully for the seat in 1855 as well).
- Abraham Lincoln. Abraham Lincoln was the US president during the American Civil War. Abraham Lincoln was the sixteenth US president who was elected to power in the year 1860. He represented the Republican Party. He was the first Republican to receive 180 of 303 electoral votes and forty percent of the popular vote. On March 4,1861 Lincoln took office as the president of the United States of America.