5. What is the reaction that would remove a fatty acid from the glycerol?
1. 5 carbon saturated fatty acid
4. What is the reaction that joins fatty acids to the glycerol?
3. Draw a glycerol and an adjacent fatty acid.
circle the atoms removed to combine the two molecules together.
Fatty‐acid triglyceride worksheet
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2. 5 carbon unsaturated fatty acid
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Fatty‐acid triglyceride worksheet
6. triglyceride with saturated fatty acids.
8. Which of the Triglycerides you drew would have a higher melting point? Why?
7. triglyceride with unsaturated fatty acids.