Biology 9700 · AS & A Level · Fluid mosaic membranes

Fluid mosaic membranes — practice question

Reducing some factors will make the cell surface membrane more fluid. Which pair of factors, if decreased, would increase the fluidity of the cell surface membrane?

  • Adistance between phospholipid molecules; proportion of short fatty acid chains
  • Bdistance between phospholipid molecules; temperature
  • Cproportion of phospholipids with saturated fatty acid chains; proportion of long fatty acid chains
  • Dproportion of phospholipids with unsaturated fatty acid chains; temperature

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