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Lipids 2 of 2
Lipids 2 of 2
Choline
Ethanolamine
Serine
Phosphatylcholine
Phosphatylcholine, structure of
molecule
Diagram of a section of
a bilayer membrane.
Space-filling model of a
section of phospholipid
bilayer membrane.
Sphingosine
Sphingolipid
Glycolipid
Cerebrosides, the simplest of such carbohydratecontaining lipids, usually have glucose or galactose
as the carbohydrate unit.
Gangliosides contain more complex carbohydrate
heads; up to seven monosaccharide units are present.
Cerebrosides
Gangliosides
Nonsaponifiable Lipids
Pentahydrofenantrene
(sterane)
Bile acids
Steroids hormones.
Fat-Soluble Vitamins
26-23
Vitamin A
Occurs only in the animal world.
Found in the plant world in the form of a provitamin in
a group of pigments called carotenes.
26-24
Vitamin A
26-25
26-26
Vitamin D
26-27
Vitamin E
26-28
Vitamin K
26-29