Typical Fatty Acids Cannot Be Converted to Glucose Because ________

question 6

Multiple Choice

Typical fatty acids cannot be converted to glucose because ________.

• A)they lack sufficient energy
• B)they enter the citric acid cycle at acetyl-CoA and can never reform pyruvate
• C)they can only be synthesized from amino acid skeletons,not fatty acid skeletons
• D)they enter the citric acid cycle as propionyl-CoA

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