Types of Lipids
Fatty acids
A fatty acid is essentially a chain of carbon atoms bound to hydrogen ending in a carboxyl group. They differ from each other in their lengths and in the number and location of carbon-carbon double bonds.
What's the difference between saturated
and unsaturated fatty acids?
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You can classify fatty acids according to their length:
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