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Fatty acids are first degraded to which compound for respiration?
ATwo-carbon acetyl CoA
BThree-carbon pyruvate
C3-phosphoglyceric acid
DFour-carbon oxaloacetate
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: A. Two-carbon acetyl CoA
Fatty acids are broken into two-carbon units that feed into the cycle as acetyl CoA.
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