What are the difference between simple lipid and compound lipid?

Answer 1

Simple lipids- These are esters of fatty acids with alcohol. Example- Acyl

glycerols,

waxes,etc

Compound lipids- These are esters of fatty acids with alcohol, but they also contain other groups. Example- phospholipids,

glycolipids

,

etc.

Answer 2

simple lipid are homolipids and are of two types

1 fats and oils

2 waxes

complex lipid are hetreophilic in nature and are divided into two categories

1 phospholipid

2 glycolypid

Answer 3

simple lipid (fast or triglycerides )contain and alcohol called glycerol and a group of compound known as fatty acid , in contrast complex lipids contain phosphorus, nitrogen and sulfur in addiction to the ones found in simple lipid.

Answer 4

A lipid is a type of molecule, a lipid bilayer is one specific structure, of many, that is made of a type of them(lipids), in this case "phospholipids".

so it goes like this, there are "lipids" which are a type of "molecule, and then there are "phospholipids" which are a type of "lipid", a type of lipid; that many structures are made out of, one of them being a lipid bilayer.

so the difference is: a "lipid" is just a type of "molecule, and a "lipid bilayer" is a type of "structure" that is composed of "a specific type of lipid" (a phospholipid).

Here I'll explain the Phospholipid

first of all, just as atoms, or elements(just specific types or variations of atoms) can bond together to create molecules, molecules can bond together to create things like phospholipids, so you've got choline, phosphate, and glycerol, in which are all molecules previously created, that eventualy come together to create the head of a phospholipid, a "hydrophilic" head, which means that because of its specific charge characteristic's it likes water, or, H2O and tries to submerse or surround itself in and with it, even if its near just a few H2O molecules. So then i think once the head is formed, its charge characteristics cause it to collect certain things that are passing by untill it forms two of whats called "a fatty acid chain" as two tails connected to the bottom of its glycerol component, these two tails are "hyrdophobic" which means that they do the exact opposite that the head does, instead of always trying to be against H2O molecules, they repel themselves away from them. So when there is an abundance of phospholipids in a much lager abundance of H2O molecules, or just water, many phospholipid structures get formed, the lipid bilayer being one of them.