What is function of a cell membrane?

Answer 1

The Cell Membrane physically separates the intracellular components from the extracellular environment. It helps in anchoring the cytoskeleton to provide shape to the cell, and in attaching to the extracellular matrix and other cells to help group cells together to form tissues. It also works as a selective filter that allows only certain things to come inside or go outside the cell.

Answer 2

One is to keep some fluids from passing through parts of the body. For example, your eardrum is a membrane that helps you hear and when you are getting over a flu that involved a lot of mucus, the mucus that passes through your head cannot get out of your head because your eardrum is there to help it from coming out of your ear. Hope I helped!:) my mom is a nurse and I asked her why my ear was hurting and had a lot of pressure in it, and she gave me this example!

Answer 3

if you are referring to the membrane of an egg it serves multiple purposes. for example when a bird first lays an egg it keeps bacteria out and moisture in. as the embryo grows it breaks down and in the last few days before the egg hatches the membrane is gone and the shell allows the chick to breath through it. o yeah inside every egg is an air pocket that protects the yolk and acts as a shock absorber and the membrane stretches to do this.

Answer 4

Membrane receptors are used for cell signaling. In humans this commonly refers to receptors for hormones. In bacteria membrane receptors are used for sensing the environment around them. This includes receptors for food and receptors for dangerous chemicals.

Answer 5

keeps track of what goes in and out of the cell

Answer 6

It is a selectively permeable Boundary Layer.

Answer 7

The function of such physiological receptors consists of binding the appropriate endogenous ligand and, in response, propagating its regulatory signal in the target cell.

Answer 8

to carry on the signal sent to the cell's nucleus to generate required action..!

Answer 9

to protect the cell

Answer 10

To control what goes In and out the cell