which part of the phospholipid is "water loving" and "water hating"?
2007-11-06 14:37:47 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
The region of phospholipid where fatty acids are hanging is the tail and is 'water hating'.
Opposite the tail is the head where phosphate group is attached and this region is 'water loving'
2007-11-09 19:42:22 · answer #1 · answered by Ishan26 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The head, composed of a polar phosphate group, is hydrophilic, or water loving,
the tails, made of 2 nonpolar, fatty acid chains are hydrophobic, or water hating.
things polar attract to each other and things nonpolar attract to each other. non-polar to polar, however, don't attract.
water is polar, and the phosphate group of phospholipids are polar too, so the phosphate head is hydrophilic. The tails are nonpolar and don't attract to polar water, so they are hydrophobic
They are all connected to a glycerol in the middle.
2007-11-06 14:46:57 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The phosphate head is hydrophilic or water loving.
The lipid tails are hydrophobic or water hating.
2007-11-06 14:42:28 · answer #3 · answered by ecolink 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Phospho - water loving (hyrdophyllic), thus faces extracellular and intracellular
Lipids - water hating (hydrophobic), face the center away from water
2007-11-06 14:43:27 · answer #4 · answered by Emerson 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cell Membrane
2016-05-28 05:22:08 · answer #5 · answered by helga 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The heads are hydrophyllic, because they are made of POLAR MOLECULES.
The hydrophobic tails are that way because they are NONPOLAR (insoluble in water!)
2007-11-06 14:48:12 · answer #6 · answered by Thomas F 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋