Amino acids play a crucial role as precursors in various biological processes, serving as building blocks for small molecules like hormones, coenzymes, nucleotides, and more. Glycine, a key amino acid, serves as the major precursor for porphyrins, essential in heme proteins. Understanding the pathwa

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Gluconeogenesis is a crucial pathway where pyruvate is converted to phosphoenolpyruvate through multiple steps involving enzymes like pyruvate carboxylase and phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase. This process occurs in the mitochondria and cytosol, requiring coenzymes like biotin and GTP. Alternate pa

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Explore the fascinating world of biological oxidation-reduction reactions catalyzed by oxidoreductases. Coenzymes play a crucial role in these processes, facilitating the transfer of hydrogen atoms. NAD+ is a well-known coenzyme involved in accepting and donating hydrogen. Witness the oxidation of e

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Metabolic pathways are a series of enzymatic reactions interconnected to form a flow of substrates and products. Irreversible steps, known as committed steps, determine pathway direction. Regulation, through positive or negative feedback, controls enzyme activity. Branched pathways share common inte

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The content covers the fundamentals of bioenergetics, including topics like anabolism, catabolism, oxidation, reduction, redox coenzymes, substrate-level phosphorylation, oxidative phosphorylation, and photosynthesis. It also explores energy level diagrams, metabolism, oxidation-reduction reactions,

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