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Phospholipids form the main fabric of the plasma membrane

Last updated: 9/19/2023

Phospholipids form the main fabric of the plasma membrane

Phospholipids form the main fabric of the plasma membrane One feature of phospholipids is that when they are placed in an aqueous solution they will self assemble into a double layer bilayer that resembles the bilayer of the plasma membrane This self assembly occurs because phospholipids are hydrophilic at one end the phospholipid head and hydrophobic at the other end the phospholipid tails 1 Drag the labels to their appropriate locations in the figure First drag labels to targets a and b to indicate whether these environments are hydrophilic or hydrophobic 2 Next drag the phospholipid layers to targets c and d to indicate how they are oriented in the plasma membrane 3 Finally drag labels to targets e f and g to indicate which portions of the membrane protein are hydrophilic and which are hydrophobic hydrophobic hydrophilic extracellular fluid plasma membrane cytoplasm Group 1 Group 1 Group 2 Group 2 membrane protein Group 1 Group 1 Group 1