Glycolipids Are Nonionic Lipids That Can Orient Themselves into Bilayers

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Essay

Glycolipids are nonionic lipids that can orient themselves into bilayers as phospholipids do. They accomplish this feat although they lack an ionic group like that of the phospholipids. Suggest a reason why this is possible.

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