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What is a cholesterol?
What is a cholesterol?
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The correct option is C Steroid
Steroids are crystallisable lipids having four hydrocarbon rings consisting of three cyclohexane and one cyclopentane ring and a long hydrocarbon side chain. Fatty acids are absent. In animals, sterols are precursors of steroid hormones and vitamin D. Cholesterol is a sterol of animal systems which forms bile salts, is a component of plasma membrane and hormones.
Steroids are crystallisable lipids having four hydrocarbon rings consisting of three cyclohexane and one cyclopentane ring and a long hydrocarbon side chain. Fatty acids are absent. In animals, sterols are precursors of steroid hormones and vitamin D. Cholesterol is a sterol of animal systems which forms bile salts, is a component of plasma membrane and hormones.
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