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kherson [118]
3 years ago
9

How do fats, oils, and waxes react with water inside the body?

Biology
1 answer:
lbvjy [14]3 years ago
4 0

Lipids are organic compounds that contain the same elements as carbohydrates: carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen. However, the hydrogen-to-oxygen ratio is always greater than 2:1. More important for biological systems, the carbon-to-hydrogen bonds are nonpolar covalent, which means that lipids are fat soluble and will not dissolve in water. There are four biologically important lipids:

<span>Fats
Waxes
Phospholipids
<span>Steroids</span></span>
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