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nekit [7.7K]
3 years ago
12

Explain in detail about Phospholipid Bilayer.

Biology
1 answer:
erica [24]3 years ago
5 0

A phospholipid bilayer or lipid bilayer is a double layer of lipids in a cell membrane which has a hydrophobic and a hydrophilic part.

Hydrophobic - expelled by water

Hydrophilic - attracted to water

The layers form the cell membrane which means that it's functions are the same as the functions of a cell membrane, and are critic to the cells functioning.



Hope it helped,



BioTeacher101

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