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- What explains the very slow movement of membrane phospholipids from one leaflet of a biological membrane to the other?A phospholipid bilayer with equal amounts of saturated and unsaturated fatty acids displays a specific permeability to glucose. What effect will increasing the proportion of unsaturated fatty acids in the bilayer have on the membrane's permeability to glucose?Which of the following is true about phospholipid bilayers?
- Would substances be able to pass through the plasma membrane if the phospholipid tails of the plasma membrane were both saturated fatty acids? Explain why or why not?Describe the structure and function of the three types of junctions found between cells.(a) Describe permeability of a phospholipid bilayer for the following molecules. Use terms: non-permeable, high permeability, medium permeability. N2, O2, Na+, glucose, sucrose (disaccharide), glycogen, H2O, KCl, K+, Mg2+, glycine and protein (b) Discuss the role of carbonic anhydrase in CO2 transport. (c) Discuss the cause of ‘cold denaturation’ of proteins.
