Question

What kind of molecule is represented in the diagram? A.A polysaccharide B.A nucleic acid C.A nucleotide D.A triglyceride

Answer 1

The correct answer should be D. a triglyceride. The picture shows a lipid (fatty acid) and since there are 3 fatty acids it is a TRIglyceride. 

Answer 2

Correct answer: D). Triglyceride

Triglycerides are the fats that we get from the food we eat and it is carried in our blood. The fat we eat in a diet are butter, oils etc all are in triglycerides form.

Triglycerides are made up of glycerol and three molecules of fatty acid. These cannot be passed directly through the cell membrane, so lipases are the enzyme, which is used to break them in fatty acid and glycerol. These broken and simpler component are easily taken by the cell.