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How are phospholipids and steroids different?Could you simplify/condense the answers to as few sentences as possible? Please and thank you :)This is for a learning guide "or study guide" (which is not graded)

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A lipid is a big group of molecules containing carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen. If one of these fatty acids is substituted by a phosphate group, then the whole molecule becomes a phospholipid.

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