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Lipids

Lipids. 4 Types of Lipids. 1. Triglycerides => energy storage. The flabby stuff most of us have on certain parts of our bodies is cells filled with triglycerides How made? see Fig. 3.8 in text. The fatty acids found in triglycerides (and other lipids) are either: saturated fat :

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Lipids

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  1. Lipids

  2. 4 Types of Lipids 1. Triglycerides => energy storage. The flabby stuff most of us have on certain parts of our bodies is cells filled with triglycerides • How made? see Fig. 3.8 in text

  3. The fatty acids found in triglycerides (and other lipids) are either: • saturated fat: - unsaturated fat: see Fig. 3.9 in text

  4. 2. Phospholipids=> major structural components of cell membranes See figure 3.10 & 3.11 in text. Know parts and charges in 3.10(b).

  5. 3. Waxes => useful in organisms that need to retain water

  6. 4. Steroids - essential to life, been responsible for 17 Nobel Prizes

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