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Carbon-carbon double bonds.
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What is the Difference between saturated and unsaturated lipid?
The difference is related to which long chain fatty acid is incorporated. If it is a fatty acid that has double bonds, then it is an unsaturated lipid. If it contains fatty acids that have no double bonds, then it is a saturated lipid.
What is the description of an unsaturated lipid?
The description of an unsaturated lipid is that it is a type of fat that is found naturally in plant products such as nuts or seeds. Unsaturated lipids are liquid at room temperature.
What type of bond are contained in an unsaturated lipid?
Double
How do you know if a lipid is saturated?
To be a saturated fat, the lipid has no double bonds. If it has at least one double bond, the lipid is an unsaturated fat.
What is unsaturated lipid?
An unsaturated lipid is a type of fat where there is a minimum of one double bond inside the fatty acid chain. The fatty acid chain may be monounsaturated or polyunsaturated.
What is a unsaturated lipid?
An unsaturated lipid is a fat in which there is at least one double bond within the fatty acid chain. Two kinds of fatty acid chains are monounsaturated and polyunsaturated.
Lipid molecules that have the maximum number of hydrogen atoms possible are referred to as unsaturated?
No. Lipid molecules that are unsaturated have less hydrogen atoms because of carbon-carbon double bonds.
Explain the difference between saturated and unsaturated lipids?
The difference is related to which long chain fatty acid is incorporated. If it is a fatty acid that has double bonds, then it is an unsaturated lipid. If it contains fatty acids that have no double bonds, then it is a saturated lipid.
What kind of lipid has a carbon atom in a lipid's fatty acid chain that is joined to another carbon atom by a singel bond?
unsaturated
What are lipid types other than unsaturated?
The two types are saturated and unsaturated. In the unsaturated there are two subtypes: monounsaturated and polyunsaturated. There are five isomer types: cis-, trans-, ortho-, meta-, and para-
Where are lipid found?
in saturated and unsaturated fatsin some vitamins and steroidsin biological membranes
Why are the shapes of the lipid molecules different between saturated and unsaturated fats?
Because the unsaturated fats contains double bonds between some of the carbons, saturated fats only contain single bonds between all of the carbons. The double bonding gives the molecules a different goemetry.
