Question
Structure and function are correlatable in living organisms. Can you justify this by taking plasma membrane as an example?
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Answer
This is true that structure and function are correlated in living organisms. Following aspects of structure and function of plasma membrane justify this fact.
- Plasma membrane provides a boundary to the cell contents. This is made possible because of its ability to segregate the inside of the cell with the external environment.
- Plasma membrane is a semi-permeable membrane. This attribute helps the plasma membrane to allow exchange of some selected materials between the cell and its external environment.
- We know that plasma membrane is composed of a lipid bilayer which has proteinintersperse in a mosaic like pattern. The protein molecules serve as channels for those substances which need active transport mechanism to enter or exit a cell.
- The fluid layer of lipid allows those molecules to pass through the membrane which can easily travel through osmosis.
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