BIOL 1005 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Pyruvic Acid, Glycogenolysis, Glycerol

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General biology: w. via more topics on the reality of cell respiration. Alternative fuels for the body other than glucose. Carbohydrates = 4kcal/gram, proteins = 4kcal/gram, fats = 9kcal/gram. The cells require energy regardless of the types of fuel that are available to the cell. Glucose is one of the easier fuels to burn and others require conversion to a usable form, of two or three carbon fragments, which go into the appropriate place within the respiratory cycle. Carbohydrates- as we have seen in class, glucose undergoes chemical hydrolysis into two three-carbon compounds which are eventually converted into pyruvate (3 carbons). This is then converted to acetyl coa and passes into the citric acid cycle, which transforms the compound into c02, h20 and energy. When glucose is not available, animal starch glycogen is hydrolyzed into glucose units. This process called glycogenolysis provides the glucose to the muscles. Glycogen is the short-term storage form of glucose in the body.

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