Includes alternative carbohydrate metabolism pathways.
Curriculum Coverage
Biochemistry
• Products of uronic acid pathway
• Biological importance of uronic acid pathway
• Role of ascorbic acid in humans
• Sources of fructose
• Reactions of fructose metabolism
• Enzymes involved in fructose metabolism
• Fructose formation in seminal fluid
• Formation of diabetic cataract
• Defects in fructose metabolism
• Uses of galactose
• Reactions of galactose metabolism
• Enzymes involved
• Genetic deficiencies of galactose metabolism