Typical fatty acids cannot be converted to glucose because ________.
A. they lack sufficient energy
B. they can only be synthesized from amino acid skeletons, not fatty acid skeletons
C. they enter the citric acid cycle at acetyl-CoA and can never reform pyruvate
D. they enter the citric acid cycle as propionyl-CoA
Answer: C
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