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The hydrophilic end of the phospholipid is the end that is attracted to water. Only the hydrophilic end will come in contact with the water. The other, hydrophobic ends, will face inward and touch each other.
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∙ 15y agono, the lipid tails, being non polar, repel the water. This regulates the osmosis of water into and out of the cell. Aquaporins, proteins on the cell membrane, enable water to travel through this non polar region.
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∙ 12y agoThe hydrophilic section of of a phospholipid is defined to be the part attracted to water. It is generally strongly polar, and capable of forming many hydrogen bonds, as opposed to the hydrophobic part, which has none of these properties.
You can easily identify the hydrophilic part of a phospholipid by first identifying hte hydrophobic section. The hydrophobic section of a phospholipid is always the long carbon chain (or multiple chains), and the hydrophilic section of a phospholipid contains everything else.
NA alternative would be to find the glycerol base of the phospholipid, then to locate the phosphate group; and everything attached to the phosphate group is the hydrophilic region of the phospholipid.
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∙ 12y agoThe phospholipid head touches the water. The phospholipid head is hydrophilic because it is polar. The fatty acid tails are hydrophobic. This region is not polar. The phospholipids form a lipid bilayer (two layers of phospholipids) forming the cell wall. The heads face the cytoplasm, and the water outside. The tails face inward avoiding the water. This process of repelling water and forming the bilayer is natural and does not require energy.
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∙ 12y agothe glycerol part is attracted because it is hydrophilic, while the fatty acids are fat soluble so they are hydrophobic and not attracted to water
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∙ 12y agothe head, because it is the hydophillic end
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∙ 13y agoone end is attracted whereas the other end repells water.
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∙ 13y agoThe head of the phospholipids are polar and the tails are non polar
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∙ 12y agoThe Hydropholic end
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The phospate group
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Do phospholipids form hydrogen bonds with water?
What part of phospholipids form hydrogen bonds with
Will water be attracted or repelled by a phosphate group?
water will attracted because water is charged
Is a phosphate head hydrophilic?
Yes, it is. The phosphate group is polar, and is attracted to water, which is also polar. Hydrophilic = attracted to water. The oxygens are very electronegative and carry a partial negative charge. This is attracted to the partial positive hydrogens of water, forming hydrogen bonds.
What term describes the attraction of one water molecule toward another?
When water is attracted to other water molecules it is called cohesion. When water is attracted to other substances it is called adhesion.
Why are water molecules attracted to sodium chlorine?
Water molecules are attracted to sodium chloride because water is a polar charge. Slightly positive and slightly negative ends on H2O, the sodium chloride Na+ and Cl- attracts to the opposing charge on the water molecule
When mixed with water phospholipids spontaneously form membranes. what properties of phospholipids cause this to happen?
Hydrophilic phosphate groups that are attracted to water and hydrophobic fatty acid tails that avoid water.
How are phospholipids oriented in the plasma membrane?
The plasma membrane and other membranes of a cell are composed mostly of proteins and a type of lipid called phospholipids. A phospholipids molecule is structured with two fatty acids. The two fatty acids at one end (the tail) of the phospholipids are hydrophobic (not attracted to water). The other end (the head) of the molecule includes a phosphate group, which is negatively charged and hydrophilic (attracted to water). Thus, the tail end of a phospholipids is pushed away by water, while the head is attracted to water.
Do phospholipids form hydrogen bonds with water?
What part of phospholipids form hydrogen bonds with
What part of a cell prevents water from the entering the cell?
Phospholipids
What part of a cell prevent water from entering the cell?
Phospholipids
Why do phospholipids form bilayer in water?
Phospholipids are formed of two types of parts, a hydrophilic part that is a attracted to and likes water, and a hydrophobic part that is repelled by water. The Phospholipid forms the bilayer to keep the hydrophobic part from coming in contact with the water and puts the hydrophobic part on the inside of the two layers of the hydrophilic part.
Describe how phospholipid molecules are oriented in the plasma membrane of a cell?
The plasma membrane and other membranes of a cell are composed mostly of proteins and a type of lipid called phospholipids. A phospholipids molecule is structured with two fatty acids. The two fatty acids at one end (the tail) of the phospholipids are hydrophobic (not attracted to water). The other end (the head) of the molecule includes a phosphate group, which is negatively charged and hydrophilic (attracted to water). Thus, the tail end of a phospholipids is pushed away by water, while the head is attracted to water.
Why Phospholipids are completely insoluble in water?
Water solubles have poles (partial positive or partial negative ends) which being attracted by the opposite poles of water (OH- & H+ respectively) causes the solution. Hydrophobic substances have no such poles.
How do phospholipids contribute to membrane structure?
Since phospholipids have a hydrophobic tail (does not like water) and a hydrophillic head (likes water) it is best for a membrane structure. For the tail, it's usually bent at one end so phospholipids can attach to each other and usually never separate. Here's a visual representation: For a membrane, the phospholipids connect until they make a circle to sorround what is inside of the cell, but it is a bilayer membrane which means there will be 2 circles of phospholipids which looks like this (ignore the yellow part): Since the hydrophobic part is facing each other, it keeps the phydrophillic parts outside and inside of the cell (look at the link above). That means the water that usually sorrounds the cell cannot get into the cell because the hydrophobic part is in between the hydrophillic part. The one that does not like water will not allow the water to get into the cell.
What part of phospholipid is not attracted to water?
That would be the hydrophobic lipid tail.
What part of a phospholipid is not attracted to water?
That would be the hydrophobic lipid tail.
What part of the phospholipids are polar?
The head is polar
