Answer:
Sugar residues or
carbohydrates attaches either with proteins or lipids usually making upless
than 10% of the membrane weight, they can give rise to a wide variety of
structures inrelatively short chains. They give individual cell types a
distinguishing features. Therefore,they may be involved in.
Cell Recognition
e.g., surface of RBC have carbohydrates arranged in branched chains:
differences
in the arrangement give rise to different blood group antigens (i.e., AB and O).
Cell surface
differences are also responsible for the specificity of action of cells with
hormones, drugs, viruses or bacteria. The cause of cell surface differences is
related to characteristic surface due to carbohydrate component.
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