Question

PLEASE HELP! - Molecules of a-ketoglutaric acid and ____ are made of all the same elements.

____ is made up of a-ketoglutaric acid and two ____ molecules.

Answer choices for all blanks: ammino, glucose, or glutamine

Answer 1

The fill-in-the-blanks answer is 'glutamine' for both the first and second blanks, and 'amino' for the third blank, referring to biomedical pathways wherein a-ketoglutaric acid forms glutamine.

Step-by-step explanation:

Molecules of a-ketoglutaric acid and glutamine are made of all the same elements. Glutamine is made up of a-ketoglutaric acid and two ammonia (should be 'amino' but assuming typo) molecules.

This is because in amino acid synthesis, glutamate can add ammonia to a-ketoglutarate to form itself, and glutamine is formed from glutamate by the addition of another ammonia molecule.