Triglyceride Structure
This molecule forms the backbone of a triglyceride.
What is glycerol?
Main function of triglycerides.
What is energy storage?
Condition caused by excess fat accumulation.
Obesity
Structure formed by phospholipids in membranes.
What is a bilayer?
How many fatty acids are in a triglyceride?
Three
Where triglycerides are stored in the body.
What is adipose tissue?
Type of tissue where excess fat is stored.
Adipose tissue
Number of fatty acids in a phospholipids.
What are two fatty acids?
The type of bonds that joins glycerol to fatty acids?
What are ester bonds?
Triglycerides provide more energy than this nutrient.
What are carbohydrates?
A disease linked to excess triglycerides.
What is coronary heart disease?
The water-hating part of a phospholipid.
Hydrophilic head
The type of reaction that forms triglycerides.
What is a condensation reaction?
The process by which triglycerides release energy.
What is respiration?
Occurs when energy intake is greater than energy use.
What is fat storage?
Direction of the phospholipids head.
Towards water.
The components that make up a triglyceride.
What are glycerol and three fatty acids.
Another function of lipids besides energy storage.
What is insulation?
What happens to excess energy in the body?
Stored as triglycerides
Molecule that phospholipids are built from.
What is glycerol?