Question

You are exploring a rather inhospitable planet, which has seas that are somewhat hydrophobic in nature. Surprisingly, there are living organisms in the seas whose cytoplasm is hydrophobic to a similar degree. These organisms have membranes made primarily of phospholipids arranged in a bilayer. What is the most probable orientation of these phospholipids A.hydrophobic tails facing towards the middle of the bilayer and the hydrophylic heads facing outward

Answer 1

The correct answer would be: hydrophilic heads of the phospholipids face toward the middle of the bilayer with the hydrophobic fatty acid tails facing outward

Step-by-step explanation:

In normal cases on earth, the lipid bilayer is arranged in a way that the hydrophilic head is present both inside and outside whereas the hydrophobic tail is present in the middle.

But in this case, the seas shows hydrophobic nature it can be predicted that the living organism whose cytoplasm is hydrophobic to the same condition that to interact with the environment the phospholipids bilayer arranged as the polar heads on middle while hydrophilic head on its inside and outside