DUMET Medical DUMET Medical Solved Paper-2006

  • question_answer
    Fluid mosaic model was proposed by :

    A)  Singer and Nicholson

    B)  Robertson

    C)  Danielli and Davson 

    D)  Huxley

    Correct Answer: A

    Solution :

    Singer and Nicholson (1972) proposed the fluid mosaic model of cell membrane. According to this model cell membranes are quasifluid with a viscous lipid bilayer having mosaic of proteins on the surface and inside. Robertson (1959)  proposed the unit membrane model for cell membrane. It states that all biomembranes have a trilaminar structure with an electron transparent lipid bilayer lying sandwithched between electron dense protein layers. Danielli and Davson states that in plasma membrane a double phospholipid layer is surrounded on the either side by a layer of hydrated globular proteins or P-L-L-P. Huxley (1868) called the protoplasm as physical basis of life.


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