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All single bonds between the carbons produce a saturated fatty acid with a straight chain. Double bonds produce an unsaturated fatty acid with a bend in it.
Unsaturated fatty acid in cell membranes do not pack so closely and the membrane is more fluid.
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∙ 11y agoAll single bonds between the carbons produce a saturated fatty acid with a straight chain. Double bonds produce an unsaturated fatty acid with a bend in it.
Unsaturated fatty acid in cell membranes do not pack so closely and the membrane is more fluid.
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∙ 12y agoThe 'fatty' part of the fatty-acid is a long chain of -CH2- s, usual lengths range from 16 -CH2- s to 24 -CH2- s. At many specific locations, [resulting in different types of lipids] sometimes a pair of Hydrogen atoms are removed to form a C=C double bond.
This occurring once yields a mono-unsaturated lipid [fatty acid].
Beauty Bonus: Lands animals have typically even numbers of -CH2- 'monomers' for their lipids [C16, 18, 20, 22, 24], while marine animals typically have odd numbers of -CH2- 'monomers'.
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∙ 12y agocarbon can make people fat.
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What kind of fatty acid has only single bonds?
In saturated fatty acids are there only single bonds in the carbon chain.
What kind of bonding is necessary to produce a saturated fatty-acid?
Unlike unsaturated fatty acids, which contain double carbon bonds, saturated fatty acids have enough hydrogen bonded to their carbon atoms so that they can only have single bonds.
What fatty acid has no double bonds between carbon atoms?
A saturated fat. Saturated with hydrogen at the bonding site freed up by lack of carbon-carbon double bonds. This fat packs tightly and is solid at room temperature.
What is a distinguishing characteristic of a saturated fatty acid-?
Saturated fatty acids do not have double bonds between carbon atoms and unsaturated.
How many double bonds do saturated fatty acids have?
There may be one double bond or many, up to six in important fatty acids.
What are unsaturated fatty acids?
Unsaturated fatty acids are fatty acids that have double bonds in their long carbon chains.
Why do saturated fatty acids have straight structure while unsaturated fatty acids have bent structure?
saturated fatty acids contain more carbon atoms Saturated fatty acids have single carbon-to-carbon bonds.
How are saturated fatty acids and unsaturated fatty acids the same?
Both have, carbon and hydrogen and carbon-carbon sigma bonds.
Are fatty acids with double bonds saturated or not?
Fatty acids containing double bonds are unsaturated fatty acids as they still contain sp2 carbon atoms within them.
Why do saturated fatty acids have straight structures while unsaturated fatty acids acids bent structures?
Saturated fatty acids have single carbon-to-carbon bonds (which tend to act like a rigid pole) while unsaturated fatty acids have double carbon-to-carbon bonds (which can act like hinges making the molecule flexible).
What is a saturated of a fatty acid?
Saturated fatty acids have only single carbon-carbon bonds.
Why do saturates fatty acids have straight structures while unsaturated fatty acids have bent structure?
Saturated fatty acids have single carbon-to-carbon bonds (which tend to act like a rigid pole) while unsaturated fatty acids have double carbon-to-carbon bonds (which can act like hinges making the molecule flexible).
What kind of fatty acid has only single bonds?
In saturated fatty acids are there only single bonds in the carbon chain.
What type of fatty acid are there only single bonds in the carbon chain?
In saturated fatty acids are there only single bonds in the carbon chain.
What are formed from fatty acids with single carbon-to-carbon bonds?
Saturated Fats.
Formed from fatty acids with single carbon-to-carbon bonds?
saturated fats
Why do saturated fatty acid have straight structures while unsaturated fatty acids have bent structures?
Saturated fatty acids have single carbon-to-carbon bonds (which tend to act like a rigid pole) while unsaturated fatty acids have double carbon-to-carbon bonds (which can act like hinges making the molecule flexible).
