Biotin Is Important in Gluconeogenesis for All of These Reasons

question 19

Multiple Choice

Biotin is important in gluconeogenesis for all of these reasons, except:

• A) It is necessary to add CO₂ to certain intermediates in this pathway.
• B) CO₂ becomes one or more of the 6 carbons in the glucose product.
• C) Biotin is capable of binding covalently to CO₂.
• D) Biotin helps synthesize an important precursor of phosphoenolpyruvate.
• E) All of these reactions require the vitamin coenzyme.

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