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What is the process by which an amino acid is used to make glucose?
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∙ 13y ago
For an amino acid to become glucose, it must enter through the different members of the Kreb's Cycle. The first reaction is to remove the amino group of the amino acid before entering the cycle.
There are 5 amino acids that enter through;
pyruvate: alanine, cysteine, glycine, serine and threonine
alpha ketoglutarate: glutamate, glutamine, arginine, histidine, proline
oxaloacetate: aspartic acid and asparagine
fumarate: phenylalanine and tyrosine
succinyl coA: isoleucine, methionine, valine
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∙ 11y ago
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∙ 13y agoThe gluconeogenesis pathway converts amino acids (except lysine and leucine) to glucose. It's catalyzed by a variety of enzymes that are outlined in the Wikipedia article on Gluconeogenesis.
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∙ 11y agoGlucose does not turn into amino acids. Glucose does not contain nitrogen, an essential element in amino acids.
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∙ 13y agoGluconeogenesis
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∙ 13y agogluconeogenesis
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∙ 11y agoglycation
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∙ 11y agoIn liver
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What is the conversion of amino acids and glycerol into glucose called?
Making glucose form an amino acid is a type of a real neat trick. Normally plants make glucose from a reaction involving carbon dioxide and hydrogen with the hydrogen produced from water by photosynthesis. Glucose is a raw material for the production of amino acids. The other way around does not work.
What is converting the info on the mRNA into a sequence of amino acids that make up a protein?
First we convert the nucleic acid into a messenger RNA, mRNA, by the process of transcription. Then, in the ribosome, we convert this mRNA unto a polypeptide ( the amino acid sequence ) by the process of translation.
How might one missing nucleotide or the insertion of one additional nucleotide in a DNA strand alter the formation of the translated protein?
Deletion of just one nucleotide in a protein-coding part of a gene will cause a "frameshift mutation." Since the nucleotides are read in groups of three (codons) along the gene, the groupings will change and the protein that results is likely to be completely different.
Amino acids are monomers used to build what?
A monomer is a small molecule that can easily bind to others. Amino acids are monomers, because they bond together to form proteins, which are polymers. Another example of a monomer is glucose, but it can bind to form polymers like cellulose.
How many turns of the citric acid cycle are required for a single glucose to be metabolized?
The citric acid cycles doesn't really metabolize glucose. That would be the glycolysis.
Glucose is to a starch as a. a steroid is to a lipid b. a nucleotide is to a nucleic acid c. an amino acid is to a protein d. a polypeptide is to an amino acid?
an amino acid is to a protein. ie starch is made of a chain of glucose with side branching. aa's combine to make a protein, to simplify things
What is the conversion of amino acids and glycerol into glucose called?
Making glucose form an amino acid is a type of a real neat trick. Normally plants make glucose from a reaction involving carbon dioxide and hydrogen with the hydrogen produced from water by photosynthesis. Glucose is a raw material for the production of amino acids. The other way around does not work.
What produces protein in your body?
our body cam make protein in the form of amino acid there are twenty amino acid in which all can be synthesized but in the twenty 10 amino acid is synthesized by simple process and the other 10 takes a long process so that they shouled be taken by diet
What is converting the info on the mRNA into a sequence of amino acids that make up a protein?
First we convert the nucleic acid into a messenger RNA, mRNA, by the process of transcription. Then, in the ribosome, we convert this mRNA unto a polypeptide ( the amino acid sequence ) by the process of translation.
Why is the R group in amino acids?
The R group in an amino acid are what make that amino acid unique.
Why is the R group in amino acids important?
The R group in an amino acid are what make that amino acid unique.
How might one missing nucleotide or the insertion of one additional nucleotide in a DNA strand alter the formation of the translated protein?
Deletion of just one nucleotide in a protein-coding part of a gene will cause a "frameshift mutation." Since the nucleotides are read in groups of three (codons) along the gene, the groupings will change and the protein that results is likely to be completely different.
How does the body make glucose from protein?
Glucose can't be converted to proteins by addition of chemicals . But during metbolic reaction products formed from glucose are used to make amino acids by addition of amino group which form proteins .
Which groups make up amino acid?
Carboxylic group + Amino group
What smaller units make up proteins?
amino acids
Amino acids are monomers used to build what?
A monomer is a small molecule that can easily bind to others. Amino acids are monomers, because they bond together to form proteins, which are polymers. Another example of a monomer is glucose, but it can bind to form polymers like cellulose.
What is the base unit of a protein?
Amino acids make up proteins.
