Becker's World of the Cell (9th Edition)
Becker's World of the Cell (9th Edition)
9th Edition
ISBN: 9780321934925
Author: Jeff Hardin, Gregory Paul Bertoni
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 9, Problem 9.6CC
Summary Introduction

To explain The reason for the survival of organisms without exogenous glucose when glucose is the primary source of energy for many cells.

Introduction: The glucose is the universal substrate for the energy generated inside cells. There may be variations in metabolic pathways but the scheme of the production of ATP from glucose is more or less the same. There is a number of organisms which use substrate other than glucose for the utilization of energy and survive.

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