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Ok...I am rather new to this and I have a question which has been bugging me.
In a lipid (specifically in the plasma membranes of Prokaryotes) the polar ends of the lipid molecules are hydrophilic but the non-polar end is hydrophobic.
Now, if part of the molecule is polar, doesn't mean that the entire molecule is polar? How can you have a non-polar end? That seems oxymoronic.
