Sunday, January 17, 2010

What's the structure of the parent compound of cholesterol?

the parent compond of cholestrol? cholesterol is a parent compound of practically every steroid in your body.





cholestrol is a steroid, which has 4 rings of carbon, 3 6-carbon rings and a 5 carbon ring, fused together, and on one end has a 8 carbon hydrocarbon, and an OH on the other.





look it up online, on like wikipedia to get a picture of the structure

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