Steroids

Greetings, I'm an analytical chemist, I'm currently working on androgenic steroids. I have basic knowledge in biology and biochemistry but not enough in the subject I'm currently working on. Anyway, I have this steroidogenesis pathway on which I'm basing my research ...

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... and didn't care much and you gave him all the correct answers... Definitely so! Neutral fats are part of the lipid family, just as well as steroids and triglycerides.

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Yep it does not seem to have the sterol structure (that includes the pentagonal ring) and that defines steroids (see plenty here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Steroidogenesis.svg). But your reasons to eliminates all the others are perfectly correct. So I feel a bit confused ...

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... . However, a lot of students in my class are disagreeing with my answer, and I am starting to understand why. I looked up structural formulas of steroids, and the closest structure I found to the one pictured above was that of cholesterol . However, there is a pentagonal carbon structure in cholesterol ...

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What role do anabolic steroids have (apart from cheating, and leading you into dangerous health waters!), and what's all the stuff about exercise converts fat to muscle? as in do lipids actually 'transform' into protein, or is it actually ...

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