Question

Imagine you collected bacteria from the sediment in a frozen lake in Minnesota in January and compared the membranes to membranes from bacteria collected from a lake in Texas in June. Consider how the membranes would likely differ.

The membranes in bacteria from the Minnesota lake would most likely have which of the following?

a. more saturated lipid tails than membranes in Texas bacteria

b. fewer lipid tails with cis-double bonds than membranes in Texas bacteria.

c. more unsaturated lipid tails than membranes in Texas bacteria

d. phospholipids with more negatively charged phosphate groups than membranes in Texas bacteria

Answer 1

Answer:

The correct answer is "C"

Explanation:

With diminishing temperature the quantity of unsaturated lipid increments. As unsaturated lipid have twofold securities and this structures a wrinkle and leads free space that is smoothness. So the living beings in colder locales have increasingly unsaturated lipids to keep up the ease of film.  Thus, the saturated lipid are inflexible. So with expanding temperature the quantity of immersed lipid increments to keep up the film ease. Consequently life forms in more sweltering area have increasingly immersed lipids.