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__________ fats or lipids form animal body fat that is used for stored energy and insulation.

a.Hydrogenated
b.Reconstituted
c.Saturated
d.Unsaturated

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The answer is C.) Saturated

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Answer:

C

Step-by-step explanation:

Saturated fats are usually solid at room temperature. This is why the fats in the body of animals are solid (the white mass under the skin and surrounding organs like the liver and heart). Saturated fats have such properties because their carbon chains have very few to no double bonds. Therefore their chains have no kinks that interrupt hydrogen bonding between adjacent chains. This helps the chains to stick tightly together increasing the boiling and melting point of these fats/lipids.

Plants, on the other hand, usually have unsaturated fats/lipids.

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