BIOB34H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Skeletal Muscle, Trehalose, Hmg-Coa Reductase
22 Dec 2014
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Overview : nutrient needs : lipids, carbs, feeding : how do various kind of animals acquire nutrients they need, breakdown : breaking of nutrients and take up in cells. Serves as a source of raw material for growth, maintenance or production of gametes. Essential nutrient: one that an animal cant synthesize- must be obtained from diet. An organic molecules with 2 traits: primairly compromised of carbon and hudrogen, predominantly non polar and hydrophobis. Has carboxyl group at end and long hydrocarbon chain. Around 50 type sof fatty acids wie range. They differ interms of: chain length ( 8-24, and number and location of c-c double bonds. 1st fatty acid palmitic: 16:0 means that there are 16 carbons and 0 tells us it"s saturated and no c-c double bonds. Oleic 18:1w9: 18 carbons , w- omega , 1 c-c double bond , w9- where first double bond is located ( 9 carbons from end of molecule, unsaturated.
