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Debbie is interested in working on projects that will help fight childhood obesity. She is offered a job in a laboratory where researchers are studying the effects of leptin on weight control. Should she take the job?


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Carbon Dioxide

An invisible, scentless gas that is a product of combusting carbon-based substances and breathing processes, which is utilized by plants during the photosynthesis.

Glycolysis

The metabolic pathway that converts glucose into pyruvate, releasing energy and pyruvic acid as end products.

Glucose

An essential energy-supplying sugar, fundamental to living entities and found in a vast array of carbohydrates.

Aerobic Respiration

A process of producing cellular energy involving oxygen. Cells use oxygen to convert glucose into ATP, releasing carbon dioxide and water.

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