What Do Fats, Steroids, and Waxes Have in Common? The Chemistry of Lipids Explained
At first glance, the butter in your kitchen, the cholesterol in your bloodstream, and the waxy coating on an apple leaf seem to have nothing in common. Yet biochemists classify all three—fats (triglycerides), steroids, and waxes—under a single molecular family: lipids. The thread that binds them is not a shared backbone or functional group, but … Read more