Lipids

In this topic

• What is a lipid? The shared property is being hydrophobic
• Fats: glycerol, fatty acids and the ester bond
• Phospholipids, steroids, waxes and lipid-like substances
• What lipids do

Key terms

• Lipid
• Hydrophobicity
• Triacylglycerol
• Fatty acid
• Ester bond
• Unsaturated fatty acid
• Essential fatty acid
• Phospholipid
• Amphipathic molecule
• Lipid bilayer
• Cholesterol
• Metabolic water

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