Germinating Plant Seeds Can Convert Stored Fatty Acids into Oxaloacetate

question 44

Short Answer

Germinating plant seeds can convert stored fatty acids into oxaloacetate and a variety of carbohydrates. Animals cannot synthesize significant quantities of oxaloacetate or glucose from fatty acids. What accounts for this difference?

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Definitions:

Significant Differences

Statistical evidence that two or more groups have values that are not likely to be the same purely by chance.

Two-Tailed Tests

Statistical tests that consider both directions of effect, allowing for the exploration of non-specific hypotheses.

One-Tailed Tests

Statistical hypothesis tests that determine the significance of an observed effect only in one direction, either greater than or less than a specified value.

Rejection Region

The portion of the sampling distribution of a statistic that leads to the rejection of the null hypothesis.