LIPIDS
Cards (50)
- What is the main storage form of energy in animals?
- Which lipid forms the bilayer of membranes?
- Which lipid contains a sphingosine backbone?
- How do glycolipids differ from phospholipids?
- Cholesterol is a precursor of what?
- What characterizes steroids?
- Vitamin A is derived from what?
- Vitamin D is derived from what?
- What is the main function of Vitamin E?
- What is Vitamin K important for?
- Which fatty acid is considered essential?
- What is the omega-3 fatty acid?
- What is the omega-6 fatty acid?
- What do saturated fatty acids contain?
- How are unsaturated fatty acids usually found at room temperature?
- How are trans fats formed?
- What is arachidonic acid a precursor of?
- What do eicosanoids include?
- How many kcal/g do lipids yield?
- How many kcal/g do carbohydrates yield?
- Why are lipids better energy stores?
- What do adipocytes store lipids mainly as?
- Which lipid is abundant in myelin?
- What acts as a detergent-like molecule in bile?
- Which molecule transports lipids in blood?
- What is HDL known as?
- What is LDL known as?
- What are waxes?
- From what are terpenes derived?
- What do steroid hormones include?
- What are lipid rafts rich in?
- Which lipids can act as second messengers?
- What does phospholipase C cleave?
- What is ceramide a backbone for?
- What does lipid peroxidation damage?
- What does essential fatty acid deficiency lead to?
- What does Vitamin A deficiency cause?
- What does Vitamin D deficiency cause?
- What does Vitamin E deficiency cause?
- What does Vitamin K deficiency cause?