Prescott's Microbiology 8th Edition by Joanne Willey, Linda Sherwood, Christopher J. Woolverton, Lansing Prescott, John Harley, Donald Klein

Exercise 1

List the functions of bacterial and archaeal plasma membranes. Why must their plasma membranes carry out more functions than the plasma membranes of eukary-otic cells?

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The plasma membrane is the first level of separation between the cell cytoplasm and the external environment. It contains proteins embedded in the membrane that help the cell sense nutrients, signals, or toxic compounds in the environment.