With respect to the outer and inner faces of the lipid bilayer of the cell membrane, the composition of lipids is

A) asymmetrical.
B) identical.
C) not identical but symmetrical.
D) highly random and varies throughout the cell.
E) a mirror image.


A) asymmetrical.

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