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Before pyruvate enters the citric acid cycle, it is decarboxylated, oxidised and combined with co -enzyme a.
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So you get acetylcoa, carbon dioxide and one molecule of a, n -a -d -h, b, f -a -d -h, c -a -t -p, b -f -a -d -p, or e -g glucose.
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Okay, so what reaction is happening here? we have pyruvic, and we're adding...
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Co -a and we're going to have something else, which i will talk about shortly.
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And this gives us acetyl co -a plus co2 plus something else.
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Okay, so pyruvate is being decarboxylated.
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That's why we get a carbon off it.
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And it's also being oxidized.
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What does oxidized mean? remember, oxidizing is losing an electron, reducing, reducing, is gaining one...