Discussion
State whether the following is true or false.
Increasing the proportion of unsaturated fatty acids makes a membrane less fluid.
Answer: D
The kinks introduced by double bonds stop the tails packing closely, so fluidity rises rather than falls rather than dropping. Organisms living in the cold accordingly build membranes with a higher proportion of unsaturated lipid, keeping them workable at low temperature.
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