2006-09-15 05:03:12 · 6 answers · asked by michelle 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Chemistry
Lipids have no monomers per se. Some lipids like glycerides and phosphor lipids are made from fatty acids and glycerine, but they are not monomers in the chemical sense of the word. The type of lipids called cholesterols are made from another type of lipid called squalene. The class of molecules called lipids is a wide range of structurally different molecules with very different properties, but they have no repeating unit or monomer as e.g. proteins or polysaccharides.
Stretching things quite a bit you could say that the monomer is acetic acid, as nature likes to work with that unit in biosynthesis, but it really is stretching it.
2006-09-15 05:29:04 · answer #1 · answered by WeirdSpace 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Monomer Of A Lipid
2016-10-03 10:27:33 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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Nucleic acid monomers would be the individual rungs of the chain: phosphate + a sugar (ribose or deoxyribose) + the base (A, C, T, G, or U). I'm not sure that lipids are thought of as polymers, and so there isn't really a 'monomer' that they are made up of. I guess you could say it is either a -CH2- unit, since lipids are basically chains of carbons with hydrogens, or two of these ( -CH2-CH2- ), since I think lipids are usually made by adding 2 carbons at a time from acetyl-co-A molecules.
2016-04-10 06:47:12 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
lipids are not proper polymers, and so can not have a monomer. A polymer is formed when there are repeating smaller units, for example starch(polymer) is formed from glucose(monomer), or plastic is another type of plolymer, formed from repeating hydrocarbon units.
lipids are acutally large molecules that contain glycerol + fatty acids. For example, triglycerides are types of lipids where there are 3 hydrocarbon chains attached to a glycerol molecule by forming a bond.
As there are no repeating units that continually form a long chain, there are no "monomers" that form a lipid.
2006-09-15 05:29:13 · answer #4 · answered by shekum 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The monomer means one unit. It depends on the lipid, but the monomer would be whatever the corresponding fatty acid is.
Hope that helps.
2006-09-15 05:29:28 · answer #5 · answered by The ~Muffin~ Man 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A monoglyceride is a glyceride consisting of one fatty acid chain covalently bonded to a glycerol molecule through an ester linkage
2006-09-15 05:13:10 · answer #6 · answered by Nirmal87 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
fatty acids
2006-09-15 12:04:20 · answer #7 · answered by LeGuts 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
fat
2006-09-15 05:10:04 · answer #8 · answered by BritneySpearsSucks 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋