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Well... Lipids It's like
this:
Tap Neutral fat
Tap There are various types
• Neutral lipid of lipids, such as neutral

• Phospholipid lipids, phospholipids,
• Glycolipid glycolipids, and steroids.
• steroid Lipid is a term typically used
in biochemistry, while fat
is a word usually used in

nutritional science.

For our purposes,
the meaning is

exactly the same.
In other words,

lipid = fat.

But normally, when Dad ...we mean That's confusing,
we're talking about neutral fat/ though, so let's
a diet and say "fat"... neutral lipids.
just use the
word "lipid"
from now on.

Since lipid is a Organic
generic term solvents?
used to refer
One example is
to various acetone, which is
biomolecules, often used in nail
it's difficult to polish remover.

define, but... More specifically,
organic solvents are
Lipid liquids consisting of

An important organic compounds
with carbon atoms in
property of lipids
their structures.
is that they don't
dissolve readily Alcohol is
another example.
in water but
do dissolve in Biochemistry in Our Everyday Lives 91
organic solvents.*

* There are exceptions, though: some glycolipids do
dissolve in water.