• Question: what is phlem made out of?

    Asked by yo_momma to Andy, Dwaine, Natt, Priya, Tatiana on 20 Jun 2015.
    • Photo: Natt Day

      Natt Day answered on 20 Jun 2015:

      Hi Freya,

      Phlegm is very similar to mucous and is made up of long chains of glycoproteins (chains of proteins with side attachments of glycan beads), fat molecules and antibodies.

      Natt

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