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What are phospholipid tails made of?

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Answer:

glycerol backbone 2 fatty acid chains and a phosphate group

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What is the tail of a phospholipid made of?
The tails of phospholipids are made up of an alcohol and a phosphate group, while the tails are chains of fatty acids.
What is the tail of a phospholipid?
Phosopholipids have a phosphate group as the head, and a lipid tail.
Tails of phospholipids?
The tails of phospholipids are fatty acids.
Where are the phospholipids made?
In the Endoplasmic Reticulum
A phospholipid is mad of what head and what tail?
In a Plasma membrane, the phosholipid bilayer is composed of centrioles with tails attached to them.