We are taught that plasma membranes are a typical lipid bilayer, but how do we know this, and who figured it out? Aa Aa Aa Most books mention that membranes have a typical "lipid bilayer," but why ...

(A) The plasma membrane of a cell is a bilayer of glycerophospholipid ... The hydrophilic head is composed of a choline structure (blue) and a phosphate (orange). This head is connected to a ...

"But having both a bilayer-forming lipid, which provides the basic structure for the cell membrane, and a non-bilayer-forming lipid, such as cholesterol, which adds stability, seems to be a ...