Lipids

Question 1

What is the definition of the word lipid?

Answer 1

The collective name fr all fats and fat-like substances

Question 2

What are fatty acids?

Answer 2

Long chain carboxylic acids, saturated or unsaturated, most unsaturated are cis, and all are unbranched

Question 3

What is the most notable essential fatty acid

Answer 3

Omega 3
or
Omega 6

Named so due to the length of unsaturated carbon chain at the end

Question 4

What is a triglyceride

Answer 4

Fatty acid triester of glycerol

(a triacylglycerol)

Question 5

What are tricylglycerols transported by, and where are they stored

Answer 5

Lipoproteins and adipocytes respectively

Question 6

What family do HDLs and LDLs belong to

Answer 6

Lipoproteins

Question 7

What does amphiphilic mean

Answer 7

Attracted to both water and oil

Question 8

What is the structure of glycerophospholipids

Answer 8

Fatty acid groups bounf to glycerol, which is bound to phosphate, and that to alcohol

Question 9

What cleaves glycerophospholipids

Answer 9

Phospholipases

Question 10

What id the structure of sphingolipids

Answer 10

Fatty acid bound to sphingosine, which is bound to phosphate, to chlorine

(ampiphilic)

Question 11

How are glycolipids structured

Answer 11

Fatty acid to sphingosine to sugar