As a Forensic Pathologist,you Have Just Completed an Autopsy of a Poisoning

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Multiple Choice

As a forensic pathologist,you have just completed an autopsy of a poisoning victim.After a thorough examination,you conclude that the victim died of cyanide poisoning.You know that cyanide binds to the cytochrome oxidase complex,and therefore list the official cause of death as suffocation due to cyanide exposure.However,a more technical explanation would be that all of the following aspects of cellular respiration were inhibited except

• A)the reduction of NAD⁺ and FAD.
• B)electron transport.
• C)oxidative phosphorylation.
• D)proton pumping.

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