Question 1 a. List two compounds that can be produced from pyruvate in skeletal muscle b. What are the enzymes that cata
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Question 1
a. List two compounds that can be
produced from pyruvate in skeletal muscle
b. What are the enzymes that catalyse the production of
the compounds that you have listed.
c. List the ketone bodies?
d. Explain why ketone bodies are formed in diabetes
mellitus.
e. Define the term P/O ratio.
f. calculates the amount of energy produced from the
complete oxidation of glucose to Carbon dioxide and water.
g. What is an anaplerotic reaction?
h. Give an outline of one example of an anaplerotic
reaction.
a. List two compounds that can be
produced from pyruvate in skeletal muscle
b. What are the enzymes that catalyse the production of
the compounds that you have listed.
c. List the ketone bodies?
d. Explain why ketone bodies are formed in diabetes
mellitus.
e. Define the term P/O ratio.
f. calculates the amount of energy produced from the
complete oxidation of glucose to Carbon dioxide and water.
g. What is an anaplerotic reaction?
h. Give an outline of one example of an anaplerotic
reaction.