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Explain why those biological reactions that have their equilibria shifted towards the products have negative values for ΔGo of reactions. Explain how equilibria relates to Gibbs free energy.

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products have negative values for ΔGo of reactions. Explain how equilibria relates to
Gibbs free energy.

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