Nester's Microbiology: A Human Perspective

9th Edition

ISBN: 9781259709999

Author: Denise G. Anderson Lecturer, Sarah Salm, Deborah Allen

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education

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Chapter 6, Problem 9MC

If a bacterium loses the ability to produce FADH₂, which of the following cannot continue?

a) Biosynthesis

b) Glycolysis

c) The pentose phosphate pathway

d) The TCA cycle

e) Fermentation

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If a bacterium loses the ability to produce FADH 2 , which of the following cannot continue? a) Biosynthesis b) Glycolysis c) The pentose phosphate pathway d) The TCA cycle e) Fermentation

Solution Summary: The author explains that the TCA cycle cannot continue if a bacterium loses the ability to produce FADH 2.

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