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Which one of the following terms best describes a phospholipid. It consists of a:

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Which one of the following terms best describes a phospholipid. It consists of

a:


  1. polar head and polar tail
  2. non-polar head and a polar tail
  3. polar head and non-polar tail
  4. non-polar head and a non-polar tail

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C: polar = hydrophilic head of phosphate (which can dissolve in the

aqueous extracellular solution because water molecules are polar); non-polar =

hydrophobic tails of lipid, which being non-polar, cannot dissolve in aqueous

solutions.

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