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The compound that composes most of the cell membrane in most animal cell is called...phospholipid. This molecule works by being amphipathic, it has a polar end and a nonpolar end. This allows two layers of this molecule to for the phospholipid bilayer, with the nonpolar tails excluded from the water and turned inward and the polar heads turned outward into the solution.

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