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Is the process to convert glucose into Vitamin C understood? Would it require something that could be seen as a tradeoff in our case?
by mrleinad 15y ago
Is the process to convert glucose into Vitamin C understood? Would it require something that could be seen as a tradeoff in our case?
- maxerickson 15y agoProbably not a tradeoff. Scurvy is devastating and Wikipedia says an animal like a 70 kg goat makes ~13 grams of Vitamin C a day (which isn't very much of anything).
- jonhendry 15y agoScurvy might be devastating, but it's ridiculously easy to prevent. Especially nowadays.
- maxerickson 15y agoSure. I was responding to the tradeoff question. It just doesn't seem very likely that some animal survived because it wasn't making Vitamin C (the other case is some animal surviving even though it didn't properly make it).