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Structure of glycerol-based lipids. Stick drawing represents carbon backbone of headgroup (bold) and fatty acid chains. “R” represents hydrocarbon chains ranging from 10 to 22 in length with and without double bonds. Headgroups are attached to the sn-3 position of glycerol and the nature chirality is noted for the sn-2 position
