How does cholesterol m animal cell membranes affect the flui

How does cholesterol m animal cell membranes affect the fluidity of die bilayer? Cholesterol is a hormone voluble in the cytosol, Cholesterol tends to make the bilayer more find. Cholesterol has little effect of membrane fluidity. Cholesterol tends to stiffen the bilayer.

Solution

Answer : c

Cholesterol acts as a bidirectional regulator of mambrane fluidity because at high temperatures it stabilizes the membrane and rises its melting point, where as at low temperatures it interacts between the phospholipids and prevents them from clustering together and stiffening.