Your Friend Has Been on a Diet and Loses 15

question 48

Multiple Choice

Your friend has been on a diet and loses 15 pounds of fat. After studying cellular respiration, you explain to her that the fat was converted to __________.

• A) ATP, carbon dioxide, and water
• B) protein
• C) amino acids and then eliminated from the body
• D) urine and eliminated from the body
• E) ATP, oxygen, and water

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