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Explain why an erythrocyte membrane that synthesizes too little spectrin is a sphere rather than a biconcave disk.
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Explain why an erythrocyte membrane that synthesizes too little spectrin is a sphere rather than a biconcave disk.

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the surface Area has to increase in order to produce more spectrin .erythrocytes have this form because they have to get into small capillares .
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