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The subunits of lipids are fats, oils, waxes, sterols and triglycerides.
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∙ 14y agoWhat are the four major subdivisions of lipids.?????????????
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∙ 9y agoThe various subunits that make up lipids are triglycerides, fats, sterols, waxes and oils. Vitamins, phospholipids, monoglycerides and diglycerides are also found in lipids.
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∙ 15y agoglycerols and fatty acids
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∙ 15y agoglycerol and fatty acids
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Cholesterol
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What is the definition of lipid fats?
Lipids are a broad group of naturally occurring molecules which includes fats, waxes, sterols, fat-soluble vitamins (such as vitamins A, D, E and K), monoglycerides, diglycerides, phospholipids, and others. The main biological functions of lipids include energy storage, as structural components of cell membranes, and as important signaling molecules.Lipids may be broadly defined as hydrophobic or amphiphilic small molecules; the amphiphilic nature of some lipids allows them to form structures such as vesicles, liposomes, or membranes in an aqueous environment. Biological lipids originate entirely or in part from two distinct types of biochemical subunits or "building blocks": ketoacyl and isoprene groups.Using this approach, lipids may be divided into eight categories: fatty acyls, glycerolipids, glycerophospholipids, sphingolipids, saccharolipids and polyketides (derived from condensation of ketoacyl subunits); and sterol lipids and prenol lipids (derived from condensation of isoprene subunits).Although the term lipid is sometimes used as a synonym for fats, fats are a subgroup of lipids called triglycerides. Lipids also encompass molecules such as fatty acids and their derivatives (including tri-, di-, and monoglycerides and phospholipids), as well as other sterol-containing metabolites such as cholesterol. Although humans and other mammals use various biosynthetic pathways to both break down and synthesize lipids, some essential lipids cannot be made this way and must be obtained from the diet.
What are the subunits in starch?
Glucose.
How many subunits does glucose have?
It has only one. We refer to subunits when we talk about polymers, which long molecules made up of joined monomers, rather like a necklace made of many beads. The beads are the subunits. Glucose is not a polymer, it is a monomer. Amylose, one of the constituents of starch,is made of at least a thousand glucose subunits.
What are the subunits of sucrose?
poo and wee
What are the subunits that polymerize to form starches?
Sugars
Subunits of lipids are?
fatty acids and glyceroids
What are subunits in lipids?
fatty acids and phospholipids!!!
What are lipids subunits?
fatty acids and glycero
Subunits of lipids?
triglycerides, phospholipids, waxes, and steroids
Subunits that make up lipids?
fatty acids and steroids
What are subunits of Lipids?
Lipids are a group of hydrophobic chemical structures comprised of fats, oils, steroids, phospholipids, and waxes. The basic subunits of most of these are fatty acids, which have a hydrocarbon backbone and a carboxyl group at one end.
What are the fundamental subunits of lipids?
i tried to say ".. is strictly y0 m@m@" but it wouldn't let me sorry i had to XD
What do proteins and carbohydrate and lipids have in common?
They are all formed from the same elements. They are part of the cell membrane (phospholipids not just lipids). polymers of smaller subunits, i believe.
What do protein carbohydrate and lipids have in common?
They are all formed from the same elements. They are part of the cell membrane (phospholipids not just lipids). polymers of smaller subunits, i believe.
What do proteins carbohydrate and lipids have in common?
They are all formed from the same elements. They are part of the cell membrane (phospholipids not just lipids). polymers of smaller subunits, i believe.
What do protein's carbohydrate's and lipids have in common?
They are all formed from the same elements. They are part of the cell membrane (phospholipids not just lipids). polymers of smaller subunits, i believe.
Explain what distinguishes lipids from other major classes of macromolecules?
Lipids are not soluble in water. improved..>> macromolecules have smaller subunits eg. protein-amino acid, carboyhdrate monosacharide, nucleic acid-nucleotide. unlike all the above examples lipids subunits are fatty acids which do not form covalent bonds with one another, rather they 'aggregrate' together.
