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Title: Which of the following statements is/are incorrect?
Post by: ryanlovesbigban on Nov 25, 2015
Which of the following statements is/are incorrect?
i. Like fats, phospholipids are esters of glycerol
ii. A phospholipid has three fatty acid residues
iii. Phospholipids have a nonpolar head and long, polar tails


Title: Re: Which of the following statements is/are incorrect?
Post by: bio_man on Nov 25, 2015
i. Like fats, phospholipids are esters of glycerol

The most common phospholipids are esters of glycerol; therefore, they are called glycerophospholipids.