Complete the sentences to correctly describe steps in fatty acid synthesis. some terms will not be used, and some will be used more than once. fatty acid synthesis begins with a preparatory step in which is transferred from to the . however, it cannot pass through the membrane, so it is transported as , which is cleaved to and . in the cytosol, acetyl‑coa is converted to , a three‑carbon compound. fatty acid synthesis begins with the transfer of the acetyl group from acetyl‑coa to fatty acid synthase. ‑carbon groups, supplied by , are added to the growing acyl chain in a series of steps involving condensation, , and dehydration reactions. elongation of the fatty acid chain stops at carbon atoms, after cycles, as the free fatty acid is released.