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Phosphatide any member of a large class of fatlike phosphorus containing substance that play important structural and metabolic roles in living cells. The phospholipids the glycolipids and the lipoproteins are called complex lipids as distinguished from the simple lipids and from other fat soluble cell components mostly isoprenoids and steroids the term phosphoglyceride is used by some as a synonym for phospholipid and by other to denote a subgroup of phospholipids.
phospholipid is the major component of cell membrane.
due to its amphiphilic nature it can form lipid billayers.
it consist of 2 hydrophobic tails and one hydrophilic tail.
component joined by glycerol .
first discovered in 1847 in LECITHIN