At the end of this activity, students should be able to describe the structure of lipids and their major groups, describe the structure of fatty acids and their significance as metabolic fuel and structural components of different groups of lipids, - describe the structure of a triacylglycerol molecule and the role of triacylglycerols in living organisms, understand the bipolar character of the structure of phospholipid molecules and its biological significance and describe the importance of cholesterol as a component of cell membranes and a substrate for the synthesis of steroid hormones and vitamin D3.

Originally released by Learnetic, 2016.