Both glycolysis and the pentose phosphate pathway oxidize glucose to pyruvate

Indicate whether this statement is true or false.


TRUE

Biology & Microbiology

You might also like to view...

After returning from a trip to Africa, Tom feels tired and weak and has severe anemia.  A blood smear reveals a protozoan in his blood and the health care provider diagnoses malaria.  Which of the following could be the causative agent of this disease?

A. Taenia solium B. Plasmodium vivax C. Trichophyton rubrum D. HIV E. Giardia lamblia

Biology & Microbiology

Coronary circulation involves ____

a. only the aorta b. only the coronary arteries c. only capillaries d. the aorta and coronary arteries e. the aorta, coronary arteries, and capillaries

Biology & Microbiology

Introns are known to contain termination codons (UAA, UGA, or UAG), yet these codons do not interrupt the coding of a particular protein. Why?

A) More than one termination codon is needed to stop translation. B) Introns are removed from mRNA before translation. C) UAA, UGA, and UAG are initiator codons, not termination codons. D) Exons are spliced out of mRNA before translation. E) These triplets cause frameshift mutations, but not termination.

Biology & Microbiology

A series of nodular lesions on an arm that fill with pus and ulcerate through the skin is characteristic of infection with the fungus

A) Microsporum. B) Trichophyton. C) Epidermophyton. D) Micrococcus. E) Sporothrix schenckii.

Biology & Microbiology