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Metabolic Process |
NADH formed |
FADH2 formed |
CO2 formed |
ATP formed by substrate level ~P |
ATP formed by oxidative ~P |
beta-oxidation |
2 |
0 |
3 |
||
Kreb’s cycle |
6 |
3 |
Food labels list that a gram of fat has 9 kcal of energy and that a gram of carbohydrate (or protein) has 4 kcal of energy. A mass to mass comparison, however, is misleading. A better comparison is mol to mol, which corrects for differences in MW. This can be done by comparing a molecule of glucose, which has 6 carbons, to a molecule of a fatty acid that also has 6 carbons.Complete the missing entries in the following table for the complete oxidation of one molecule of caproic acid in skeletal muscle. Caproic acid is a 6-carbon saturated, medium chain fatty acid found naturally in various animal fats and oils. (Caproic acid undergoes two cycles of ?-oxidation to form three acetyl-CoAs).
One molecule of caproic acid undergoes the complete oxidation to form the following
beta-oxidation Kreb’s cycle
NADH formed 2 9
FADH2formed 2 3
CO2formed 0 6
ATP formed by substrate level~P 0 3
ATP formed by oxidative ~P 3 0