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both omega-3 and omega-6 are polyunsaturated fatty acids they both they have multiple double bonds between carbons across the molecule now the Omega has to do with how many carbons from the carboxyl terminus of the the first the first double bond lies so in you know more simply put that just means how far from the end of the fatty acid the first double bond is in omega-3 has a double bond three carbons in and omega-6 has a double bond six carbons in
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the based on where the position of the first double bond is in the molecule we often name the molecule omega-3 omega-6 meaning an omega-3 fatty acid is a polyunsaturated fatty acid so a chain of carbons with some double bonds in it with more than one double bond in it where the first double bond is three positions from the end of the molecule and omega-6 the first double bond is six positions from the end of the molecule just how we name the molecules
again we're now in the polyunsaturated fat world we have two families two major families it's called omega-6 and omega-3 and they're called Omega because when chemists to start first started naming chemicals naming fatty acids when they were discovering the structure of them there was the beginning and the end of the molecule and the way they designated what was the beginning of the molecule they called that was the alpha carbon the first carbon and the last carbon in the molecule was always the Omega carbon taking from the Greek alphabet the Alpha and the Omega at the beginning in the end so the Omega carbon was at the end if you have an omega-6 fatty acid this actually said Omega minus six means that if you count back six positions from the Omega or final carbon you get the first double bond in the molecule and that's specific for all of all the fatty acids that are omega-6 family they all have that characteristic first double bond six counting back from the Omega or final carbon and the omega-3 fatty acids all have the first double bond in the third position