In the 1950s,J

question 10

Essay

In the 1950s,J.D.Robertson reported that any membrane that he observed in the electron microscope looked the same.This led to his proposal of the Unit Membrane model of membrane structure suggesting that all membranes were exactly alike.Why was this model eventually rejected?

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