NURSING ANM AND GNM

Detailed explanation-1: -Saturated fatty acids, such as arachidic, stearic and palmitic, have straight chains. Unsaturated fatty acids have bent chains. Monounsaturated fatty acids, such as erucic and oleic have a single double bond between carbons creating a single bend in the chain.

Detailed explanation-2: -Saturated fatty acids are straight-chain organic acids with an even number of carbon atoms (Table 2). All saturated fatty acids that have from eight to 16 carbon atoms increase the serum LDL cholesterol concentration when they are consumed in the diet.

Detailed explanation-3: -Three-dimensional representations of several fatty acids. Saturated fatty acids have perfectly straight chain structure. Unsaturated ones are typically bent, unless they have a trans configuration.

Detailed explanation-4: -Saturated fatty acids tails are straight, so fat molecules with fully saturated tails can pack tightly against one another. This tight packing results in fats that are solid at room temperature (have a relatively high melting point). For instance, most of the fat in butter is saturated fat 2.

Detailed explanation-5: -Fatty acids may be saturated or unsaturated. In a fatty acid chain, if there are only single bonds between neighboring carbons in the hydrocarbon chain, the fatty acid is said to be saturated. Saturated fatty acids are saturated with hydrogen since single bonds increase the number of hydrogens on each carbon.