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The cell membrane is composed of phospholipid bi-layer and proteins. The phospholipids are both hydrophillic and hydrophobic and makes the cell membrane be selectively permeable, that is allows only curtain molecules to pass through the membrane. The proteins function is to determine wchich molecules must go in and wchich shouldn't go inside the cell.

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