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1. Describe the plasma membrane, and explain why it is called a bilayer structure.

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Plasma Membrane is like all other cellular membranes, the plasma membrane consists of both lipids and proteins. The lipid bilayer (or phospholipid bilayer) is a thin polar membrane made of two layers of lipid molecules

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