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Which type of macromolecules is a steroid

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Steroids are also lipids but they have a carbon skeleton of four connected rings (no glycerol here) (3.9, pg 41). The different properties of different steroids are due to the attached functional groups. Cholesterol is a steroid that can be modified to form many hormones.

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