Linoleate is an essential fatty acid in mammalian diets because mammalian cells ________.
A) synthesize it from arachidonate
B) do not use this acid for biosynthesis
C) can use it to synthesize eicosanoids
D) do not have a desaturase that acts beyond the carbon-9 position
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