Saturday, September 6, 2008

summary 5.3

Lipid and hydrophobic

lipid: Definition - One of class of water- avoiding compounds.
Property:It act as a boundary that surrounds and contains the aqueous contents of your cell.
Hydrophobic:water avoiding compounds.
Fat:Organic compound consisting of a three carbon backbone attached to the three fatty acids.




statured fat: It's a fat in which all three fatty acid chains the maximum possible number of hydrogen atoms.

Unstatured fat: It's a fat with less than the maximum number of hydrogens in one or more of its fatty acid chains .
Diet: If there is many unstatured fats included in your diet, it's unhealthy.

Steroid:lipid molecule with four fused carbon rings.
It's hydrophobic.
some steroids circulate our body as chemical signal.
Cholesterol: It's the best know steroid and it's an essential molecule found in the memberanes that surrounds our cell
concept check
1.What is property does lipid share?
Lipids act as a boundary that surrounds and contains the aqueous contents of your cells.
2.What are the parts of fat molecule?
Saturated fat and unsaturated fat.
3.Describe two ways that steroids differents from fat
Differ from function and structure, such as fat circulates our body as chemical signal
4.what does unsaturated fat on a food label?
Those are the things mainly made out of vegetables.

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