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Q. Fluid mosaic model of plasma membrane was given by

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Fluid mosaic model of plasma membrane was given by Singer and Nicholson in year $1972$ . The biological membrane are considered to be a quasified structure in which the lipids and integral proteins are arranged in a mosaic manner.
Gorter and Grantal measured the lipid content of haemolyzed eythrocytes and concluded that cell membrane are chiefly formed of phospholipids arranged to form a bimolecular lipid sheet.