Glycogen is a homopolysaccharide formed by units of glucose and is sometimes referred to as animal starch. It can reach up to a molecular weight of 10 to the power 8 DA which corresponds to about 600,000 glucose molecules.
The function of glycogen is that it is the principal form in which glucose is stored in animals and is present in the liver, muscle (skeletal and heart muscle) and in lower amounts in nearly all the other tissues and organs.
Glycogen makes up about 10% of liver weight and 1% of muscle weight. Although it is present in higher a concentration in the liver, the total amount stored in muscles is much higher due the greater mass of the muscles as compared to the liver.
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The sickle cell allele is recessive. Hence, in order for any child of the couple to have sickle cell anemia, such a child will have to inherit an affected allele each from the two parents. This means that both the father and the mother must have affected alleles in their genotypes. In other words, two sickle cell alleles are required for the abnormality to manifest.
Let us assume that the sickle cell allele is represented by S and the normal allele is represented by A.
Now, it is established that the mother has sickle cell anemia, her genotype would be SS. The father does not have sickle cell, his genotype can either be AA or AS.
Assuming the genotype of the father is AA:
SS x AA
AS AS AS AS
<em>All the children would be normal in this case.</em>
Assuming that the genotype of the father is AS
SS x AS
AS SS AS SS
<em>50% of the children would have sickle cell while the remaining 50% would be normal.</em>
<u>Therefore, in order to produce children with sickle cell, the father has to be AS, otherwise, he has to be AA.</u>
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This question is asking for the number of ATP that is produced by the citric acid cycle and the electron transport chain.
Citrate is the first biological substance in the citric acid cycle and it is the starting point of the cycle. From one molecule of citrate, the citric acid cycle will produce 2 ATP while the electron transport chain will produce 34 ATP. Therefore, together both the citric acid cycle and the electron transport chain will produce 36 ATP.
