Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Lipids
- what are lipids?
- diverse groups of molecules that contain regions
composed almost entirely of hydrogen and carbon.
- polar
- water soluble
- non polar
- make lipids insoluble in water
- Oils, Fats, an Waes are Lipids Containing
Only Carbon, Hydrogen and Oxygen
- contain one or more fatty acid sununits
- fats and oils
- formed by dehydration
synthesis
- tryglycerides
- energy storage molecules
- fats (solid at room temp)
- joined by single bonds, saturated
- oils (liquid at room temp)
- double bonds, unsaturated
- waxes
- highly saturated, solid at
outdoor temp
- Phospholipids hav ewater soluble
"heads" and water-insoluble "tails"
- phospholipids are the plasma
that surrounds each cell
- similar to oils, exceot one fatty acid is
replaced y phosphate
- 2 dissimilar ends
- two nonpolar fatty acid tails
- phosphate-nigtrogen head
- steroids contain four
fused carbon rings
- composed of 4 rings of carbon atoms
- these can end up with different funcional groups
- cholesteron
- waxy, fat-like substance that's found in all the cells in your body.
- testosterone
- the primary sex hormone and
anabolic steroid in males.
- estrogen
- one of two main sex hormones
that women have.