What is the fluid mosaic model of the cell membrane?
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Date: 2022-04-13

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Cell Membrane MCQs https://peerr.io/quiz/cell-physiology-cell-biology-eukaryotic-cell-human-cell The fluid mosaic model of the cell membrane proposed by Singer and Nicolson in 1972 is the widely accepted model explaining the arrangement of biomolecules in the cell membrane. According to this model, the lipids are arranged as a continuous layer and the proteins are arranged as a discontinuous mosaic in-between the lipids. The lipids have a fluid like floating consistency due to which the mosaic of proteins can be described to be floating in the fluid like lipid membrane, thus explaining the fluid-mosaic model of the cell membrane.