The following both link carbohydrate metabolism with lipid biosynthesis: (a) How many molecules of glucose are required
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(a) How many molecules of glucose are required to provide the carbon for the synthesis of one molecule of palmitate?
(b) How many molecules of glucose are required if all of the glucose first proceeds through the pentose phosphate pathway before proceeding through the rest of glycolysis on its way to pyruvate?
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Biochemistry Concepts and Connections
ISBN: 978-0321839923
1st edition
Authors: Dean R. Appling, Spencer J. Anthony Cahill, Christopher K. Mathews
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