Fats are used by mammals and oils are used by plants for energy storage. Both of these types of lipid are triglycerides.
Outline how plants make oils using carbon from the atmosphere.
a. photosynthesis uses CO2 /carbon from the atmosphere;
b. (photosynthesis) produces glucose/carbon compounds;
c. fatty acids/oils/lipids produced from glucose/carbon compounds;
d. (oils are) three fatty acids linked to one glycerol;
e. by condensation reactions;
f. carboxyl/COOH group of fatty acid linked to hydroxyl/OH group of glycerol;
g. oils are made up of unsaturated fatty acids;
Chemical equation may be used to gain mpa and mpb.
Structure of triglyceride could be taken from a diagram
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