Why Pigment To Pass Through The Cell Membrane

The reason for less light being able to pass through the water is due to the amount of pigment released by the cell. At higher temperatures the cell membrane starts to become more fluid as there are higher amounts of kinetic energy meaning that the phospholipids are able to move around more, creating larger spaces between each phospholipid. This therefore means that more pigment is able pass through the membrane and out of the cell. At higher temperatures the proteins in the cell membrane can become denatured and so cannot do the job they need to properly. If carrier proteins or channel proteins are denatured then it means that substances can get in and out of the cell that shouldn’t be able to and so this is the reason for pigment to be released
from the beetroot into the water at higher temperatures.