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What is the importance of the fluid nature of the membrane?


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Fluid:

  1. The thin layer that forms the living cell's outer boundary or an interior cell compartment is called a membrane.
  2. The plasma membrane serves as the exterior boundary, and organelles are the compartments contained by interior membranes.
  3. The fluid nature of the membrane is important in tasks such as intercellular connection formation, cell division, cell proliferation, secretion, and endocytosis.

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