Biology (11th Edition)

Published by McGraw-Hill Education
ISBN 10: 1259188132
ISBN 13: 978-1-25918-813-8

Chapter 3 - The Chemical Building Blocks of Life - Review Questions - Apply - Page 58: 6

Answer

B.

Work Step by Step

Nonpolar C-H bonds cannot hydrogen bond with water, leading to insolubility (B.). A. and C. both list features which would lead to interaction with water/solubility, so those are wrong. D. can be eliminated since not all lipids have double bonds, making this option not a generally true answer.
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