If you transferred a phospholipid bilayer from water to oil, what effect would this have on the membrane?
A) The membrane would become very rigid.
B) The membrane would form four layers instead of its normal two.
C) The membrane would be unaffected by the oil.
D) The membrane would tend to invert its normal structure by placing the polar head groups on the inside of the bilayer and the nonpolar fatty acid tails outside.
E) The phospholipid bilayer would split into two separate layers, which each would be maintained in the oil.
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