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Why is plasma membrane described as "protein iceberg in sea of lipids"?

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Plasma membrane is described as "Protein icebergs in the sea of lipids" because of the lipid bilayer arrangement of the membrane. In this type of arrangement two layers of lipids form the membrane with embedded proteins at some places not throughout.

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