wdawdawd Lipids: Structure & Function

Question 1

Triglycerides

Answer 1

• Fats
• Oils
• ENergy storage
• Buoyancy
• Protection
• Insulation
• Long Hydreocarthbon chain with many C-C bonds, little oxygen, so when reduced in cellular respiration, bonds release energy to produce ATP
• RELEASES WATER SO USEFUL FOR DESETRT ANIMALS TOO WHEN THE HYDROCARBON CHAINS ARE BROKEN FOR RESOIORAT{ v.m,sEBUKF

Hydrophobic, no osmotic effect on cell

Question 2

Phospholipids

Answer 2

• If tails are saturated, less fluid
• If unsaturated, morte fluid

Cholesterol
- Disrupts close packing of phospholipids
- Making them less fluid
- Blocks water solubvle substances from diffusing across membrane

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