9 Questions
What is most used characteristic is most used to define lipids?
Solubility
Which of the following lipid molecules possess a different fundamental structural make-up from the others?
Cholesterol
What does amphipathic mean?
Having both hydrophilic and hydrophobic regions
Which of the following is true?
The fatty acids in both triacylglycerols and in phosphoacylglycerols vary.
How many hydroxyl groups does a molecule of glycerol have?
3
Which of the following is true?
Fatty acids with an odd number of carbons are more rare than those with an even number
Which of the following is not a characteristic of most fatty acids?
Presence of trans double bonds
Unsaturated fatty acids usually have double bonds
cis
Which of the following compounds yields the most energy per gram?
triacylglycerols
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