I know that cellulose is vital to plant cells and that it can't be digested by humans but by certain animals (ruminants) and horses that are hindgut fermenters.

With this, I find it super interesting learning about the structure of cellulose itself! Putting the real world application together with how this molecule is extremely strong because of the glucose monomers flipped over with beta 1-4 linkages tells me why certain animals, like cows, need microbes to be able to digest these strong structures!

Understanding the function and importance of the phospholipid bilayer helps me to understand why it's arranged like that.

Since it's the basic structure of most cell membranes and responsible for how the plasma membrane acts, by having the hydrophobic tails face to face and the hydrophilic heads point out, the cell and plasma membrane is able to interact with water.

This means the plasma membrane acts as a barrier, and a stable one since the tails are aligned!

real-world-application #question How can gene therapies be used to combat these imperfections in mutated genomes? What are some other ways of curing cancer involving the genome?