When the Body Needs Energy Quickly, Pyruvate Is Converted to ____________________;

question 7

Short Answer

When the body needs energy quickly, pyruvate is converted to ____________________; when the energy expenditure is slower, pyruvate is broken down into ____________________.

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Definitions:

Stage 2 Sleep

A period of sleep characterized by specific brain waves (sleep spindles and K-complexes), signifying a deeper sleep than stage 1 and a transitional phase into deeper stages of sleep.

Psychoanalyst

A therapist who practices psychoanalysis, a method of exploring the unconscious mind to treat psychological disorders and understand behavior.

Manifest Content

The actual literal content and storyline of a dream as remembered by the dreamer, according to Freudian dream analysis.

Latent Content

In psychoanalytic theory, the hidden psychological meaning of dreams, as opposed to the manifest content, which is the literal storyline.