Keeping in view the 'fluid mosaic model' for the structure of cell membrane, which one of the following statements is correct w.r.t. the movement of lipids and proteins from one lipid monolayer to the

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Keeping in view the 'fluid mosaic model' for the structure of cell membrane, which one of the following statements is correct w.r.t. the movement of lipids and proteins from one lipid monolayer to the other (described as flip-flop movement)?

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While lipids can rarely flip-flop, proteins cannot

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Neither lipids nor proteins can flip-flop

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Both lipids and proteins can flip-flop

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While proteins can flip-flop, lipids cannot

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