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#Question id: 2210


Which of these is a general feature of the lipid bilayer in all biological membranes?

#XL - Q Biochemistry
  1. Individual lipid molecules are free to diffuse laterally in the surface of the bilayer.

  2. Individual lipid molecules in one face (monolayer) of the bilayer readily diffuse (flip-flop) to the other monolayer.

  3. Polar, but uncharged, compounds readily diffuse across the bilayer.

  4. The bilayer is stabilized by covalent bonds between neighboring phospholipid molecules.