Problem 1.1:
What is the name of the starting material of the citric acid cycle?
Problem 1.2:
What is the term used to describe a process that is both catabolic and anabolic?
Problem 1.3:
Why is the enzyme that catalyzes the conversion of pyruvate to acetyl-CoA called
the pyruvate dehydrogenase multienzyme complex?
Problem 1.4:
The enzyme pyruvate dehydrogenase performs a similar function to what glycolytic
enzyme? What type of reaction do these two enzymes catalyze?
Problem 1.5:
What is the role of NAD in the conversion of pyruvate to acetyl-CoA?
