Question

Compare and contrast the structures and functions of glycerolipids and sphingolipids

Answer 1

Sphingolipid:any individual from a class of lipids (fat-dissolvable constituents of living cells) containing the natural aliphatic amino liquor sphingosine or a substance fundamentally like it. Among the most straightforward sphingolipids are the ceramides (sphingosine in addition to an unsaturated fat), broadly appropriated in little sums in plant and creature tissues.

glycerolipids

An amphipathic lipid composed of a glycerol backbone, 2 fatty acids, a phosphate, and a head group (alchol, ethanolamine, choline, serine, inositol,etc.)

differences:

Glycerophospholipids -> glycerol backbone the function is energy store.

Sphingophospholipids -> sphingosine backbone

the major function of sphingolipids is Major components of nervous tissue (myelin sheath)
Found in biological membranes