You have a cup of vegetable oil and a vial full of normal phospholipids. What would you predict would happen if you dropped the phospholipids into the cup of vegetable oil? Group of answer choices The phospholipids would form a sphere with the heads on the inside. The phospholipids would form a sphere with the tails on the inside. The phospholipids would float on the surface of the oil with the tails in the air. The phospholipids would float on the surface of the oil with the heads in the air.

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Bradley Daugherty

25 April, 19:43

You have a cup of vegetable oil and a vial full of normal phospholipids. What would you predict would happen if you dropped the phospholipids into the cup of vegetable oil? Group of answer choices The phospholipids would form a sphere with the heads on the inside. The phospholipids would form a sphere with the tails on the inside. The phospholipids would float on the surface of the oil with the tails in the air. The phospholipids would float on the surface of the oil with the heads in the air.

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Hugo Johnston · Answer 1

The phospholipid will form a sphere with the heads inside

Explanation:

Phospholipids are glycerol molecules containing two Fatty acids that is hydrophobia and a hydrophillic negatively charged phosphate.

The phosphate forms the head and the two fatty acids will form the tail

When phospholipid is dropped into a cup of vegetable oil (a lipid). The phospholipid will form a sphere with the heads inside. This is because the heads are hydrophillic and cannot dissolve in the fat hence they will cluster together.