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Describe the structure of the plasma membrane of an animal cell. What would be found directly inside and outside the membrane?

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Hey everyone, let's take a look at this question. Together in all cells, the cytoplasm is surrounded by what? Whereas the blank is found outside the plasma membrane of a plant cell. Let's think back to what we know about the structure of a cell and specifically a plant cell. So when we're talking about a plant cell, we know that outside of the plasma membrane of a plant cell, we have a cell wall. And so looking at our answer choices, we can see that we have a cell wall here for the second option and then also in options A and D. We have cytoplasm and we know that the cytoplasm cannot be found outside of the plasma membrane. So A. And D. Are incorrect. And when we're talking about all cells and the cytoplasm, we know that the cytoplasm is not surrounded by the cell wall. Making answer choice C incorrect as well. So answer choice B is the only acceptable answer here because we do know that in all cells the cytoplasm is actually surrounded by that plasma membrane and as we said before, the cell wall is found outside of the plasma membrane in a plant cell. So answer choice B is the correct answer. Hope you found this video to be helpful. Thank you and goodbye

Describe the structure of the plasma membrane of an animal cell. What would be found directly inside and outside the membrane?

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