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- 2. An important molecule in cellular respiration, glucose production, regulation of inflammation, and molecular signaling.
- 5. The process in which a substance break sdown into a simpler substance .
- 6. It is the source of energy for use and storage at the cellular level.
- 9. A process that plants and algae use to turn carbon dioxide from the air into sugar, the food autotrophs need to grow.
- 10. It is a metabolic process. When the body does not have enough glucose for energy, it burns stored fats instead.
- 12. A simple sugar ang carbohydrate.
- 13. The process by which organisms use oxygen to break down food molecules to get chemical energy for cell functions.
- 15. The end product of glycolysis, which is converted into acetyl coA that enters the Krebs cycle when there is sufficient oxygen available.
- 18. The metabolic pathway that converts glucose ( into pyruvate glucose The main sugar found in your blood.
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- 1. It is a significant source of metabolic energy during interprandial periods and high energy demand states, such as exercise
- 3. A chemical compound that is used to make one of the building blocks of DNA and RNA.
- 4. The process through which cells produce ATP for energy in the cellular respiration process.
- 7. A chemical process of decomposition involving splitting of a bond by the addition of water.
- 8. The process of utilisation of oxygen to breakdown glucose, amino acids, fatty acids to produce ATP.
- 9. Defined as all chemical or enzymatic reactions involved in the breakdown of organic or inorganic materials such as proteins, sugars, fatty acids, etc.
- 11. The production of chemical compounds by reaction from simpler material.
- 14. The monomer of a protein
- 16. A molecule that participates in many biochemical reactions in protein, carbohydrate and lipid metabolism.
- 17. This stored form of glucose is made up of many connected glucose molecules
