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In a classroom, students who are biochemistry majors are learning about the overall organization of biological membranes. However, one of the students finds a WRONG explanation about the fluid mosaic model from a website and bring it up in a discussion. Which of the following is a WRONG explanation?

a. An explanation of the two-dimensional solutions of oriented lipids and globular proteins.
b. The lipid bilayer is a solvent for integral membrane proteins.
c. All membrane proteins diffuse laterally and freely in the lipid matrix.
d. None of the answers is correct.
e. The lipid bilayer is a permeability barrier for integral membrane proteins.

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Answer:

e. The lipid bilayer is a permeability barrier for integral membrane proteins.

Step-by-step explanation:

Integral membrane proteins enter the lipid bilayer by translocon channel which gives nascent polypeptide segment a chance to partition itself into lipid bilayer hydrophobic core.

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