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The answer to your question, is cholesterol a lipid is YES. The term lipids describes an entire class of fats and fat-like substances in the blood. Cholesterol is a type of lipid. Where blood is watery lipids can be identified by their waxy or oily consistency. Cholesterol is a fat-like substance with a waxy consistency that is produced in the livers of humans and other animals. Lipids are fats, when a food is high in cholesterol it simply means that the food is high in a waxy substance. This waxy substance is classified as a lipid. Having to much of this waxy substance in the body can have serious health problems including Heart disease. All cholesterol is a type of lipid but not all lipids are a type of cholesterol.
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Is cholesterol a type of nucleic acid?
It is a lipid.A steroid.The most common steroid in the world.
What type of lipid is used by the body to create hormones?
Cholesterol
Does cholesterol dissolve in water?
cholesterol is a lipid and hence hydrophobic, if it dissolved in water there would be no such thing as a cell membrane
What major types of lipid are found in the plasma membranes?
Phospholipids, cholesterol, & glycolipids.
Does the mitochondria synthesize cholesterol?
They do not synthesize lipids mainly.ER involving in lipid production.
What kind of lipid is cholesterol?
It is a steroid lipid .
Is cholesterol a type of nucleic acid?
It is a lipid.A steroid.The most common steroid in the world.
Is cholesterol a carbohydrate or lipid?
It is a type of fat, a lipid.
Is Cholesterol carbohydrate protein or lipid?
It is a type of fat, a lipid.
Cholesterol is an example of what type of lipid?
Sterol is the type of lipid
What is a waxy lipid like substance that circulates in the blood?
cholesterol :)
What type of lipid is used by the body to create hormones?
Cholesterol
Does cholesterol dissolve in water?
cholesterol is a lipid and hence hydrophobic, if it dissolved in water there would be no such thing as a cell membrane
Many hormones are this type of lipid?
Cholesterol
Which is the most abundant animal lipid?
cholesterol
Cholesterol is what type of molecule?
Lipid
What lipid is a precursor to estrogen and bile?
Cholesterol
