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What is a function of the B vitamins?
Coenzyme participation
Vitamins are essential to the survival of organisms because vitamins usually function as?
coenzymes
What are complex organic cofactors that are frequently derived from vitamins?
coenzyme
What is the molecule Acetyl coenzyme A a part of?
The metabolism process
What are the coenzyme forms of riboflavin and pantothenic acid?
The active forms of Riboflavin (B2) are FAD and FMN.The active form of Pantothenic acid (B5) is Coenzyme A.
What is the chief function of b vitamins?
Primary functions of the vitamins are to make metabolic changes possible in the body. They are the backbone of a healthy life and body.
What forms when Coenzyme A attaches to two carbons from pyruvic acid acid?
Acetyl CoA
How vitamins metabolize by the body?
Vitamin A: The yellow and green pigments found in vegetables are called carotenes which are pro vitamins and are converted into Vitamin A. The role of vitamin A in Vision has already been discussed in a previous page. Vitamin B2 is better known as riboflavin and is widely distributed in many foods. Riboflavin is used to form a coenzyme FAD important in the utilization of oxygen in the cells. Niacin, also known as nicotinic acid, is also in the B complex of vitamins. Nicotinic acid was first obtained from the alkaloid nicotine in tobacco and was later found in many plant and animal tissues as niacin. Nicotinamide is a part of the important coenzyme, Nicotinamide Adenine Dinucleotide (NAD). This NAD+ coenzyme is important during biological oxidations and is discussed in detail in a later page. Pantothenic Acid is art of the structure of coenzyme A.
What are the vitamins that assist the chemical action of enzymes?
its a type of cofactor more precisely called a Coenzyme
Does Coenzyme Q10 contain Vitamin A?
No. Coenzyme Q10, a substance known as ubiquinone, is a vitamin-like substance that is found throughout foods and in our cells. Ubiquinone -- means everywhere. It is made in the body from a protein called, tyrosine and there are several vitamins that help in this process but it does not contain Vitamin A.
What forms when Coenzyme A attaches to 2 carbons from pyruvic acid?
Product is Acetyle-Co A.Two C compound.CO2 given out.
The two forms of micronutrients are?
Vitamins, Minerals
