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Considering what you know about the properties of saturated and unsatula fatty acids, would you expect an amoeba that lives in a pond in a cold northern climate to have a higher or lower percentage of saturated fatty acids in its membranes during the summer as compared to the winter? Explain your answer. For the membranes to remain fluid in cold temperatures, they must contain a higher concentration of unsaturated phospholipids in the winter than in the summer. In the summer. increasing the concentration of saturated phospholipids would prevent the membrane from becoming too fluid. In fact, scientists