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Saturated fatty acids

Saturated fatty acids

In eukaryotic membranes refers to stearic, palmitic and myristic acids, that are linear aliphatic chains with no double bonds. Prokaryotes have numerous branched chain saturated fatty acids.


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... This is because the pork grinds contains saturated fat which only found in animals. The saturated fat has fatty acids that without a single double bond in the hydrocarbon chain. ...

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understanding saturated lipids and unsaturated lipids

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... on temperature by the composition of the fatty acids (saturated or unsaturated) and the chainlength of the fatty acids. ...

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