Question

What would happen to the relative amount of unsaturated lipids in a plasma membrane when

e. coli bacteria grown at 25 degrees celsius are then grown at 37 degrees celsius?

Answer 1

the answer is: The amount of unsaturates decreases, and the amount of saturated lipids increases
One characteristic of unsaturated lipid is that it will decrease if the temperature increase because the Cells harvested a pretty substantial amount of it and used it in a growth process