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Sterols are in fact lipids. One such sterol lipid is known as cholesterol. Cholesterol is found in body tissues such as the nerves and blood.
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What are 3 example of lipids?
fats, waxes, and sterols
3 classes of lipids?
sterols, glycerides, and sphingolipids
What are the three types of lipids found in foods?
triglycerides, phospholipids, and sterols
What are compound commonly known as fats and oils?
Lipids. The category lipids includes fats, oils, sterols, and waxes.
What are the sub-units of lipids?
The subunits of lipids are fats, oils, waxes, sterols and triglycerides.
Do triglycerides and sterols have very similar chemical structures?
Not exactly, sterols are a subgroup of steroids and contain ring structured carbons. Triglycerides on the other hand have a glycerol backbone attached to three fatty acid units. Both sterols and triglycerides are lipids.
What are the three major divisions of lipids?
triacylglycerols phospholipids, and sterols
How lipids are stored in the body?
They are stored as triglycerides, phospholipids and sterols(cholesterol)Are you studying for Dr. Small's test?
Classification of lipids?
There are several classification that pertain to lipids. Some of these are simple lipids, compound lipids and derived lipids. Lipids are sterols, fats, waxes and fat-soluble vitamins.
What are the three common categories of lipids?
1. Phospholipids 2. Sterols 3. Triglycerides These are the correct answers.
What do carbohydrates and lipids contain?
they are naturally occurring molecules that contain fats, waxes, sterols, fat soluble vitamins and phospolipids ect...
The use of sterols and phospholipids?
Phospholipids are what allow our body to utilize water and fat. they can also act as carriers in the blood. Phospholipids are found in the cell walls. Sterols: are types of fat that consit of many compound within the body such as bile, sex homonoes, vitamines D and cortisols. They are not used for energy both phospholipids and Sterols are two of the remaining thre categories of lipids
