a) The carbon skeleton of amino acids can be oxidized via the tricarboxylic acid cycle
b) Phosphatidylcholine and phosphatidylserine seldom align against each other in a phospholipids bilayer because of repulsion between their head groups
c) polysaccharides are water soluble if their component monosaccharides are water solube. Examples can be found in glycogen and glycosaminoglycans.