Biochemistry & Polymer Chemistry
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Saturated Fat
Biochemistry & Polymer Chemistry
Dimensionless
A fat whose fatty acid chains contain only single carbon–carbon bonds.
Secondary Structure
Biochemistry & Polymer Chemistry
Dimensionless
Local regular folding patterns of a polypeptide backbone stabilised by hydrogen bonds.
Starch
Biochemistry & Polymer Chemistry
Dimensionless
The storage polysaccharide of plants, consisting of amylose and amylopectin.
(C₆H₁₀O₅)ₙ
Steroid
Biochemistry & Polymer Chemistry
Dimensionless
A lipid built on a characteristic framework of three six-membered rings fused to one five-membered ring.
C₁₇ tetracyclic core