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What Are the Monomers of Lipids?

Learn why glycerol and fatty acids are the building components of fats, while lipids have no universal repeating monomer.

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What are the monomers of a lipid?

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The original worksheet asks about “a lipid” and uses a simplified fat model. The answer preserves that intended context while correcting the generalization: the 1:3 ratio describes triglycerides, not all lipids, and does not make lipids a repeating-monomer polymer class.