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What introduces kinks in fatty acid chains and causes them to be unsaturated?
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∙ 11y ago
it is due to carbon carbon double bond that reduces the number of hydrogen present in the chain and lead to the whole polypeptide chain to kink.
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What are the factors that influence whether a fatty acid is liquid or solid?
One of the factors that influence is the presence of the double bonds in the unsaturated fatty acids and this causes them to be liquid
What type of fatty acid has a bend in its structure?
unsaturated
An unsaturated fatty acid differs from a saturated fatty acid in that the unsaturated fatty acid contains what?
double carbon carbon bonds
Why do saturated fatty acid have straight structures while unsaturated fatty acid structure bend?
The bent structure in unsaturated fatty acids arises due to the presence of the double bonds.
Why is linolenic acid an unsaturated fatty acid?
Because fats are having double bond and triple bonds so they are known as unsaturated fatty acids.
What are unsaturated fatty acids?
Unsaturated fatty acids are fatty acids that have double bonds in their long carbon chains.
What causes an unsaturated fatty to have a different shape than a saturated fatty acid?
unsaturated fatty acids have a double carbon bonds APEX
What causes an unsaturated fatty acid to have a different shape than an a saturated fatty acid?
Unsaturated fatty acids have double carbon bonds.
What causes an unsaturated fatty acid to have differ t shape than a satires fatty acid?
Unsaturated fatty acids have double carbon bonds.
How many fatty acid chains do saturated fats have?
when fat releases energy is it in a unsaturated fatty acid chain
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.
What causes an unsaturated fatty acid to have a different shape than an saturated fatty acid?
The double chain in the unsaturated fatty acid cause it to bent; unlike saturated fatty acid which has no double bond, is straight
What causes unsaturated fatty acids to have a different shape than saturated fatty acids?
The double chain in the unsaturated fatty acid cause it to bent; unlike saturated fatty acid which has no double bond, is straight
What causes the plasma membrane to resist freezing?
unsaturated fatty acid tails
Fatty acid chains with all single bonds between carbon and hydrogens?
saturated fat. unsaturated has double bonds. thats why unsaturated in more healthy for you they can bend and flex. and saturated fats are solid at room temp
When the three chains of fatty acid molecules line up neatly side by side the fat is said to be unsaturated?
True or False?
Distinguish between a saturated and an unsaturated fat and list some unique emergent properties that are a consequence of these structural differences?
A fat is saturated when all of the carbon atoms in the fatty acid chains are bonded to at least two hydrogens. A fat is unsaturated when there is at least one double bond between carbons in the fatty acid chains, and it is polyunsaturated when there are multiple double bonds. The hydrocarbon chains of polyunsaturated fats bend at the places where there are double bonds and this causes them to have low melting points - the fat molecules do not align close together.
