Answer:
c. decarboxylation of an a-keto acid.
Explanation:
Decarboxylation refers to the removal of the carboxyl group from a carboxylic acid and thus releasing carbon dioxide. Decarboxylases are enzymes that speed up the removal of the carboxyl group from acids. These reactants could be amino acids, alpha-keto acids, and beta-keto acids. Biotin is known to catalyze the decarboxylation of malonyl CoA to acetyl CoA during fatty acid synthesis.
Malonyl CoA is converted to acetyl CoA after decarboxylation assisted by biotin also known as Vitamin H. Alpha keto acids are involved in fatty acids synthesis and Malonyl CoA is an alpha-keto acid because the keto group is located in the first carbon near the carboxylic acid group. Keto acids have both a carboxyl group and a ketone group.
Answer:
equal to M
Explanation:
The mass of the fully melted mass and the initial solid will be the same. So, the mass of the melt is equal to M.
Mass is the amount of matter contained within a substance. Since only the phase changed and the amount of matter is still the same, the mass of the molten phase and the solid phase will remain the same.
We are correct to say that in the heating process no mass was destroyed or added in melting the solid.
A simple phase change that preserved the mass only occurred.
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