Why do most cells in the human body divide infrequently? They have exited the cell cycle and entered G0. The free-energy change for the oxidation of glucose to CO2 and water is -686 kcal/mol, and the free-energy change for the reduction of NAD+ to NADH is +53 kcal/mol
Chemically, carbohydrate is made up of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen while the nucleic acid is made up of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and phosphorus. Thus, both carbohydrate and nucleic acid contain carbon but only nucleic acid contains phosphorus.
