What is primarily responsible for the development of a resting membrane potential?
A) having more diffusion and active transport of cations out of the cell than into the cell
B) pumping 2 K+ ions out of the cell for every three Na+ ions pumped into the cell
C) having more K+ ions diffuse into the cell than there are Na+ ions diffusing out of the cell
D) having more anions diffuse into the cell than are diffusing out of the cell
E) none of these
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