What does the first reaction of glycolysis consist of?
Glucose being converted to Glucose-6-Phosphate where hexokinase is the enzyme involved
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What does the second reaction of glycolysis consist of?
Glucose-6-Phosphate being converted to Fructose-6-Phosphate where Glucose phosphate isomerase is the enzyme involved
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What does the third reaction of glycolysis consist of?
Fructose-6-phosphate being converted to Fructose 1,6-diphosphate where phosphofructokinase is the enzyme involved
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What does part of the fourth and fifth reactions of glycolysis consist of?
Fructose 1,6-diphosphate being converted straight to 3 phosphoglyceraldehyde (GAP) where aldolase is the enzyme involved
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What does part of the fourth and fifth reaction of glycolysis consist of?
Fructose 1,6-diphosphate being converted to Dihydroxyacetone phosphate (DHAP) then to 3 phosphoglyceraldehyde where triose phosphate isomerase is the enzyme involved.
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What does the sixth reaction of glycolysis consist of?
3-phosphoglyceraldehyde being converted to 1,3-diphospoglycerate where glyceraldegade 3 phosphate dehydrogenase is the enzyme involved
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What does the seventh reaction of glycolysis consist of?
1,3-diphosphoglycerate being converted to 3-phosphoglycerate where phosphoglycerate kinase is the enzyme involved
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What does the eighth reaction of glycolysis consist of?
3-phosphoglycerate being converted to 2-phosphoglycerate where phosphoglycerate mutase is the enzyme involved
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What does the ninth reaction of glycolysis consist of?
2-phosphoglycerate being converted to phosphoenolpyruvate where enolase is the enzyme involved
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What does the tenth reaction of glycolysis consist of?
Phosphoenolpyruvate being converted to pyruvate where pyruvate kinase is the enzyme involved
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What is a kinase?
An enzyme that transfers a phosphate group to a substrate
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What is an isomerase?
An enzyme that rearranges an isomer
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What is a mutase?
An enzyme that shifts the position of the substrate
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What is a dehydratase?
An enzyme that removes a water group from a substrate
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