All I can say for our lesson this week is that lipids are much easier to study comparing proteins and amino acids because of their complicated building blocks. Lipids are the substances that makes our skin warm however too much of it can cause chronic diseases mainly heart attack, stroke, and obesity. It is also known as fats and can be found in saturated and unsaturated fats like glycerol and cholesterol. In order to avoid these diseases that commonly killed billions of people everyday we must have a healthy lifestyle that will serve as a habit in order to live life to the fullest.
Regarding its structures it looks complicated, but in reality it's not. All you have to do is just know the positions and the number of carbon atoms that a fatty acid needs such as buttanic acid requiring 4 carbon atoms meaning when writting its structure you must write from left to right 4 Cs and with its first C draw a covalent bond with O and a single bond with H then the other Cs will have Hs on the top and on the bottom having a single bond but the final C will have an H on the left side. So it states : CH3(CH2)2COOH
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