The Glyoxylate Cycle Is

Multiple Choice

The glyoxylate cycle is:

A) a means of using acetate for both energy and biosynthetic precursors.
B) an alternative path of glucose metabolism in cells that do not have enough O₂.
C) defective in people with phenylketonuria.
D) is not active in a mammalian liver.
E) the most direct way of providing the precursors for synthesis of nucleic acids (e.g., ribose) .