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Explain what distinguishes lipids from other major classes of macromolecules?
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∙ 14y ago
Lipids are not soluble in water.
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macromolecules have smaller subunits eg. protein-amino acid, carboyhdrate monosacharide, nucleic acid-nucleotide. unlike all the above examples lipids subunits are fatty acids which do not form covalent bonds with one another, rather they 'aggregrate' together.
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∙ 9y ago
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∙ 11y agoLipids are not soluble in water.
macromolecules have smaller subunits eg. protein-amino acid, carboyhdrate monosacharide, nucleic acid-nucleotide. unlike all the above examples lipids subunits are fatty acids which do not form covalent bonds with one another, rather they 'aggregrate' together.
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∙ 14y agoLipids are not soluble in water.
Triglycerides (fats and oils) have a hydrophobic property and are only quite large because they clump together but they are relatively small molecules.
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∙ 11y agolower amount of oxygen and nitrogen
generally smaller
hydrophobic
The answer: Lipids are nonpolar and therefore hydrophilic.
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∙ 11y agoThey are hydrophobic and don't dissolve in water
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