When dry phospholipids, or a mixture of such phospholipids and cholesterol, are immersed in water under laboratory conditions, they spontaneously form globular structures called liposomes. Investigation of the liposomes shows them to be made of concentric spheres, one sphere inside of another and each forming half of a bilayered wall. A bilayer is composed of two sheets of phospholipid molecules with all of the molecules of each sheet aligned in the same direction. In a water medium, the phospholipids of the two sheets align so that their water-repellent, lipid-soluble tails are turned and loosely bonded to the tails of the molecules on the other sheet. The water-soluble heads turn outward into the water, to which they are chemically attracted. In this way, the two sheets form a fluid, sandwichlike structure, with the fatty acid chains in the middle mingling in an organic medium while sealing out the water medium.
This type of lipid bilayer, formed by the self-assembly of lipid molecules, is the basic structure of the cell membrane. It is the most stable thermodynamic structure that a phospholipid-water mixture can take up: the fatty acid portion of each molecule dissolved in the organic phase formed by the identical regions of the other molecules and the water-attractive regions surrounded by water and facing away from the fatty acid regions. The chemical affinity of each region of the amphiphilic molecule is thus satisfied in the bilayer structure
Quite simply, the cell would no longer be a contained 'system' and as such the content of the cell would spill into its environment.
This can be seen when a cell 'lyses' or bursts
it will died
well if an animal cell didnt have one then it will have an odd shape
It would depend on the extent of the damage to the cell membrane. If there is only minor damage to the membrane, the cell will produce the necessary proteins, fats and carbohydrates to repair the damage, and work towards returning to homeostasis. If the damage is extensive, the cell will lyse and die, as it is no longer able to maintain homeostasis.
The Cell Membrane
it would cause the cell to lose all of its contents to the outside
Without cell membranes there would be no cells! The cell membrane defines the boundary between cell and "noncell".
The cell would die as it couldn't maintain homeostasis.
The world would explode
it will blow up
the cell membran will get harder
it will died
There would be no protein synthesis.
The cell would dissolve in water.
The cell would dissolve in water.
It would be very messy. The cell membrane is what "holds the goo in". Without it, the plant would be a puddle. -Well the cell wall holds the plant cell together, the loss of membrane wouldn't change the overall shape of the cell
Its contents would leak all over and breakdown and therefore it would not be a cell.
it would not keep working to do its functions