What are the functions of glycerophospholipids in the human body? Of triacylglycerides in the human body?

Q: Why can glycerophospholipids form membranes, while triacylglycerols cannot?

A: Glycerophospholipids are fatty acid diglycerides with a phosphatidyl ester attached to the terminal…

Q: What are the effects of saturated and unsaturated fatty acids onplasma cholesterol?

A: Introduction: Fatty acids are the basic and simplest form of lipids present in both animals and…

Q: How do unsaturated fatty acids in phospholipids affect the cell membrane?

A: Lipids are considered as one of the essential biomolecules, which are required by the body. These…

Q: How do Triglycerides constitute the majority of lipid in the body?

A: A trigylceride is an ester derived from glycerol and three fatty acids. They are the main…

Q: What are omega-3 fatty acids?

A: Omega-3 fatty acids are a class of essential fatty acids.

Q: What Are the Structures and Chemistryof Glycerophospholipids?

A: Glycerophospholipids are involved in the formation of cellular membranes.

Q: Name two glycerophospholipids found in eukaryotic cell membranes and two sphingolipids. What…

A: Phospholipids are amphipathic molecules composed of fatty acids, phosphate, alcohol group (not…

Q: What are glycosides, and how can they be formed?

A: Glycoside is a molecule in which a sugar is bound to another functional group via a glycosidic bond.

Q: What reactive groups are involved in the joining of glycerol and fatty acids?

A: BIOMOLECULES The molecules that are made up of the biological elements and it is present in all the…

Q: What is meant by a glycoform ?

A: Proteins are translated from mRNA. In eukaryotes, proteins are modified post-translationally by the…

Q: How are the complex carbohydrates formed, be they unconjugated molecules such as glycogen or…

A: Complex carbohydrates are those which are formed when several sugar molecules join together in…

Q: ketch a titration curve and the structures of the major ionic forms of glutamic acid that exist in…

A: The proteins are composed of twenty naturally occurring amino acids connected via peptide bonds.The…

Q: How Are Glycogen and Starch Catabolized in Animals?

A: Carbohydrates are one of the four major categories of biomolecules present in the cells.

Q: Which of the following are phospholipids: (a) triacylglycerols; (b) leukotrienes; (c)…

A: Lipids are a chemically diverse group of organic compounds which are insoluble in water, but…

Q: synthesis of sphingolipid

A: There are various different kinds of sphingolipid that are manifested by different structures as…

Q: What are the two most common saturated fatty acids? What is the most common unsaturated fatty acid?

A: Biomolecules are those organic molecules that help in the structure and function of the living body.…

Q: What is the clinical importance of glycosides?

A: Introduction: Glycosides are a group of natural compounds found in plants that have a diverse range…

Q: Why are glycerophospholipids more soluble in water than triacylglycerols?

A: The cell membrane is composed of a lipid bilayer in which the proteins remain embedded. Among all…

Q: What is the physiological role of iron as a mineral in the body?  Why is iron importan

A: Many minerals are needed, although in small quantity, for the proper and normal functioning of the…

Q: What is the biological function of glycogen? Which type of cells and tissue store glycogen? What are…

A: Glycogen is a highly branched polysaccharide that is composed of glucose molecules linked together…

Q: Glycolipids and glycoproteins have what type of molecule attach to them?

A: Glyco means carbohydrate group Glycoprotein and glycolipids are found in plasmamembrane

Q: In biochemistry, what form of iron, ferric or ferrous, is most readily absorbed by the body? What…

A: Iron is a trace element that is essential for the body. Hemoglobin is a protein that transports…

Q: (a) What is protein turnover? Give 1-2 examples.   (b) What are the main differences between…

A: There are four different levels for the proteins. These levels are: Primary structure secondary…

Q: What is triglyceride composed of ?

A: Triglycerides play important functions in storing unused calories and acts as a source of energy.

Q: Are the three fatty acids in a molecule of triglyceride identical?

A: Introduction: Fatty acids are the basic and simplest form of lipids that are present in both plants…

Q: Can triacylglycerols contain chiral carbon atoms? If so, which ones are chiral and how is their…

A: Chiral carbon centers are carbon atoms bonded to four distinct substituents and arranged at the…

Q: Draw an example of each of the following lipids, and compare and contrast them: Triacylglyceride,…

A: Introduction Triacylglycerols are triesters of fatty acids and glycerol. These are composed of a…

Q: What effects do unsaturated fatty acids in phospholipids have on the cell membrane?

A: A biological membrane is a lipid bilayer. The type of lipid seen in biological membranes is…

Metabolic pathways

Metabolism is defined as the group of life-supporting, enzyme-mediated chemical reactions in organisms. A metabolic pathway is a set of these chemical reactions that involve anabolism (synthesis of complex biomolecules) and catabolism (breakdown of biomolecules into small molecules) that occur inside a cell. Metabolites are the reacting substances, products, and intermediate substances of an enzymatic process that are altered by a series of chemical events catalyzed by enzymes.