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This 7 page paper examines lipids, what they are and their constituent fatty acids. The paper discusses the chemical structure of the fatty acids and the various lipids as well as where they are found and their functions. The bibliography cites 10 sources.
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of oil, made up mostly of proteins (lipoproteins), triglycerides and cholesterol, and in plants phospholipids (Gunstone et a, 1994). A major characteristic of lipids is that they are no soluble
in aqueous solutions, meaning they cannot dissolve in water in water solutions, however they are soluble in organic solvents (King, 2002, Gunstone et a, 1994). Lipids are important biological
compounds, for human have four main functions. The have the role of providing biological membranes with the structure, they are able to create and serve as energy reserves, most specifically
with triacylglycerols. Lipid derivatives as well as lipids act as hormones and vitamins, a lipid solubilization is helped by Lipophilic bile acids (King, 2002). The fatty acids make up
the lipids, they have two important roles, as the ingredients of the complex membrane lipids, and also as important constituents of triacylglycerol stored fats (King, 2002). The chemical compound
of fatty acids consists of long chain hydrocarbon molecules (Vance, 2002, King, 2002). At one end these chains include a carboxylic acid moiety (King, 2002). The fatty acid
carbon numbering starts with the carboxylate group carbon, this will emit a negative charge to the bodily fluid fatty acids as it is easily ionised (King, 2002). The term saturated
fatty acids is applied to those which have no carbon carbon double bonds, where there are chains with the double carbon bonds these are unsaturated fatty acids. The different numerical
values given to the range of fatty acids are dependant on the number of carbon atoms, this number is then followed by the number of unsaturation on the chain.
For example, palmitc acid has 16 carbon atoms and no unsaturated sites, as such it has the designation 16:0 (Vance, 2002, King, 2002). Myristic acid which has 14 carbons and
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