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Many types of cells have stores of lipids in their cytoplasm, usually seen as fat droplets. what is the lipid most commonly found in these droplets?

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I believe the lipids that are most common would be triglycerides. These non polymeric lipids, consist of a glycerol backbone with 3 varying fatty acid chains covalently bonded to them through ester linkage.
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