Multiple Choice
A Hawaiian legend tells of a village that angered a shark god.In revenge, a "seaweed" began to grow in the tidepools that killed anyone who touched it.In fact, this "limu-make-o-Hana" -- a zoanthid cnidarian -- contains a palytoxin that locks the sodium-potassium pump open, allowing free flow of ions.If a villager suffers palytoxin poisoning, which way will the ions in his neurons flow?
A) all ions will flow out
B) potassium in, sodium out
C) chloride and sodium out, potassium in
D) sodium in, potassium out
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