Hydrophilic or water-loving. The head of a phospholipid is attracted to water.Hope this helps!
For most eukaryotic organisms it is dipalitoylphosphatidylcholine (DPPC), a phospholipid.
The framework of the cell membrane is formed by the lipid bilayer. The lipid bilayer is composed of two layers of fat cells organized in two sheets. This is what provides the barrier that makes the boundaries of the cell.
Integral proteins are able to stay in the phospholipid bilayer because of the way they fold. Proteins have both hydrophic and hydrophilic regions that correspond to the regions of the phospholipid bilayer.
The non-polar part (the hydrophobic tail of the phospholipid)
This is called the hydrophobic 'side' of the phospholipid molecule
No it is in fact not a phospholipid just a lipid. A phospholipid needs a phosphate group and cholesterols molecular formula is C-27 H-46 O and with no Phosphate it can not be a phospholipid.
A phospholipid bi-layer.
The head and tail is a phospholipid molecule
No... It is a lipid because it is a hormone and hormones are lipids, but it is not a phospholipid.
Yes, that is why one of the membrane's names is, phospholipid bilayer.
This is called the hydrophobic 'side' of the phospholipid molecule
This is called the hydrophobic 'side' of the phospholipid molecule
This is called the hydrophobic 'side' of the phospholipid molecule
This is called the hydrophobic 'side' of the phospholipid molecule
It depends on which lipid bilayer you're talking about. There is the phospholipid bilayer that surrounds eukaryotic cells, cholesterol phospholipid bilayers, protein lipid bilayers, phase transition lipid bilayer, lipid bilayer membrane...
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