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Well cholesterol itself is only 1 molecule, it can't *really* contain any other molecules. It does, however have some structural similarities with fatty acids such as the nice long hydrophobic tail.

It has an OH group also, so it's possible that it shares some metabolic routes and functions with fatty acids or is derived from them (we can reduce a carboxylic acid - found in fatty acids - to an alcohol group - OH). We probably need a molecular biologist to confirm that, though :).

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