Why can glycerophospholipids form membranes, while triacylglycerols cannot?

Q: What do you mean by ergosterol?

A: Ergosterol:              A sterol that resides on the cell membranes of fungi and acts to maintain…

Q: What are phospholipids?

A: Phospholipids are one of the basic components of the cell membrane. This biomolecule posses the…

Q: Which structure contains the lowest concentration of glucose?

A: Glucose is a simple sugar, which is an important energy source in living organisms and is a…

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: Given lecithin, sphingomyelin, cephalin, phosphatidylcholine which of the following does not contain…

A: Lecithin is a fatty acid substance present in animal and plant tissues and amphiphilic in nature. It…

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: List the constituents of phospholipids

A: The main constituents of cell membranes are phospholipids. Phospholipids are fat-soluble as well as…

Q: Which of the following statements is/are true? 1. Sphingolipids all have a palmitate derivative that…

A: Lipids are one of the most biologically important macromolecule. While it is not a polymer (composed…

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: Define phospholipid.

A: A cell is a small self-contained unit within whole organisms. It is the smallest unit of the body.…

Q: Cysteine is the amino acid that participates in disulfide bonds in proteins. True or false?

A: The statement is true. Cysteine is an amino acid that is involved in formation of disulfide bonds…

Q: Show by chemical equations how alanine and glutamine can be combined to give two different…

A: Amino acids are organic compounds made up of carboxyl and amino group. Two amino acids are joined…

Q: Which of the following fatty acids, if incorporated into a typical eukaryotic membrane phospholipid,…

A: The cell membrane is the biological membrane that separates the interior of the cell from the…

Q: Lipids are water-soluble substances that tend to form surface monolayers or micelles.

A: Lipids are biomolecules. The lipids are a heterogeneous group of compounds. Includes fats, oils,…

Q: Is it better for a fatty acid to be less stiff or more stiff? How does the function change based on…

A: Fatty acids are the units of fat in our body, and it consists of an aliphatic hydrocarbon chain with…

Q: Given that phospholipid synthesis occurs only on ONE side of the bilayer, how does a cell end up…

A: The eukaryotic cells contains phospholipids as the major components of the plasma membrane composed…

Q: What properties enable phospholipids to form membranes?

A: Phospholipids are the class of lipids whose molecule has a hydrophilic head containing a phosphate…

Q: Describe permeability of a phospholipid bilayer for the following molecules. Use terms:…

A: The plasma membrane of an animal cell is made up of a lipid bilayer with proteins impregnated on…

Q: Where are the carbohydrate units located in collagen?

A: The carbohydrate units are present in collagen. Collagen is one of the most abundant form of protein…

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

A: Glycerophospholipids are lipids containing glycerol, fatty acids, and phosphate esters.…

Q: structure and function of triglycorides and phospholipids?

A: All the living organisms are made of the cells, the cells cannot completely function without the…

Q: Why should it make sense that a phospholipid molecule is larger than a carbon?

A: An atom is composed of protons, neutrons, and electrons. Same type of atoms combines together to…

Q: What are the three types of lipids found in membranes? What do they all have in common?

A: Definition of lipids-  Lipids are essentially water-insoluble biomolecules that are profoundly…

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…

Q: What are the two fates of cholesterol following its synthesis?

A: The body requires a definite amount of nutrients for proper growth and development. Nutrition…

Q: Why should it make sense that a mitochondrion(a cellular organelle) is larger than a phospholipid…

A: Mitochondria (singular: mitochondrion) is the cell organelle that involves production of energy in…

Q: The individual glycerophospholipid molecules that aggregate become covalently linked to each other…

A: The lipid bilayer is a  membrane component of the cell membrane where each lipid molecule consists…

Q: Select one: A. Both glycerophospholipids and sphingolipids are used as component of cell membrane.…

A: Glycerophospholipids are also known as phosphoglycerides is a lipid that is a major component of…

Q: Arrange each compound according to its solubility in water. Assume that each acylglycerol contains…

A: Hydrophobicity is the association that is observed if nonpolar groups or molecules are placed in an…

Q: Explain the comparison of a triacylglycerol, a phosphoacylglycerol, and a sphingomyelin ?

A: Lipids  include fats, oil, waxy like substances. They are non-polar and hydrophobic in nature…

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.