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How do saturated and unsaturated fatty acids affect membranes?

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Because of the kinks in the carbon chains at the cis double bonds of unsaturated fatty acids, the glycerophospholipids do not fit closely together. As a result, the lipid bilayer is not a rigid, fixed structure, but one that is dynamic and fluid like.
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