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Energy is released when carbon dioxide is removed from _______.

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Here are the choices from the given question above:

water
pyruvate
co-enzyme A
none of the above

The answer is
co-enzyme A.
Coenzyme A is the source of the phosphopantetheine group. It is added as a prosthetic group to proteins like as acyl carrier protein and formyltetrahydrofolate dehydrogenase.
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