Organisms which cannot control their internal body temperature must adapt to the temperature of the environment in which they find themselves. One adaptation is to change the fatty acid composition of cell membranes, in order to maintain the same degree of membrane fluidity at different temperatures. If you grow E. coli at higher temperatures than usual, how might the membrane composition change?

a) Would the membranes have more or less unsaturated fatty acids? How and why
would this affect membrane fluidity?
b) Would the membranes have shorter or longer fatty acid chain lengths? How and why
would this affect membrane fluidity?

Explanation:

a. If the E.coli is grown at high temperature, the membrane will have less unsaturated fatty acids. This is to maintain the fluidity at high temperature. Presence of cholesterol is also doing the same function, it also maintains the fluidity at high temperature.

b. At high temperature, the membrane will have longer fatty acid chains. Longer chain length increases the interactions and thus decreases the fluidity or maintains the fluidity at high temperature.

thermophiles, notice the prefix thermo.

when a reversible reaction is occurring in both directions at the same rate; the products and reactants do not change in concentration. a chemical reaction where the compound is broken into its constituent parts.

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