BIOCHEMISTRY

The pentose phosphate pathway is a crucial metabolic route that serves multiple functions in the cell. It not only produces...

Glycolysis refers to the sequence of reactions that convert glucose into pyruvate or lactate while producing ATP. Researchers fully elucidated...

Fate of the Carbon Skeleton of Amino Acids Amino acids play a critical role not only in protein synthesis but...

Transamination The transfer of an amino (NH₂) group from an amino acid to a keto acid is known as transamination....

🪶The urea cycle eliminates nitrogenous waste, primarily ammonia, produced during protein metabolism. 🪶The liver synthesizes urea 80-90% then transported to...

Major Components and Sites of Fatty Acid Synthesis:- 1.Lipids as Stored Energy: Lipids, which are considered a principal form of...

Beta oxidation is a metabolic process in which fatty acid molecules are broken down to generate energy. This process plays...

Reducing Equivalents: In biochemistry, the term “reducing equivalent” refers to any chemical species that transfers one electron in a redox...

Intermediary metabolism includes all chemical transformations that occur within a cell or organism through enzyme-catalyzed reactions. Each step in these...