Lipids

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What is the function of most lipids? What is a triglyceride made of?

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Give 3 differences between saturated and unsaturated fatty acids

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what is the structure of a triglyceride?

Can you visualise the structure?

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What type of reaction happens during the formation of a triglyceride? Could you draw it?

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Could you draw a molecule of glycerol?

Could you draw a fatty acid?

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Could you draw the formation of an ester bond between glycerol and a fatty acid?

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Could you draw the structure of a phospholipid? Which regions are hydrophilic and hydrophobic?

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What properties of phospholipids enables them to form a bilayer? Describe the structure of a phospholipid bilayer.

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