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How do I begin to understand this? Where do you start?
by xwdv 5y ago
How do I begin to understand this? Where do you start?
- JabavuAdams 5y agoMIT 7.016 Introductory Biology, Fall 2018 https://www.youtube.com https://www.youtube.com /playlist?list=PLUl4u3cNGP63LmSVIVzy584-ZbjbJ-Y63 MIT 5.111 Principles of Chemical Science, Fall 2014 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUl4u3cNGP63LOmB3_O0xbgZVZibxj4rb https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUl4u3cNGP63LOmB3_O0x... Textbooks (free PDFs available on gen.lib.rus.ec): Lehninger, Principles of Biochemistry https://www.macmillanlearning.com/college/ca/product/Lehninger-Principles-of-Biochemistry/p/1319228003 https://www.macmillanlearning.com/college/ca/product/Lehning... Molecular Biology of the Cell https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK21054/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK21054/
- JabavuAdams 5y agoCitric-Acid Cycle, Krebs cycle Glucose, Acetyl-CoA, Pyruvate, ADP, ATP, NAD+, NADH, NADP, NADPH
- COGlory 5y agoYou start with what you eat. There are three (four if you include drinking) main categories: Protein Carbohydrates Fat Your goal is to take reduced carbon (carbon bound to hydrogen) and metabolize it to oxidized carbon (carbon bound to oxygen). That process releases energy your cells can use. The problem with oxidizing carbon is that it creates toxic products ("free" electrons) and involves splitting atmospheric oxygen (O2) into O-, which is very reactive. So then you need a whole host of other pathways to contain that reactive compound. If you really want to understand it, follow the carbon as it comes in, and trace it through to CO2. That's the pathway, and everything else is to support that.