Timeline for Why is glucose so common in disaccharides, as opposed to a different monosaccharide?
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| May 16, 2023 at 20:39 | comment | added | Ryan | glycolysis can be biotic or abiotic. my position would always be to asume abiotic conditions to be ontologically prior. I don't see how my position is teleologica, as well, I haven't asserted a King hexose" type explanation, but I do see how answer 2 is related to that position | |
| May 16, 2023 at 20:34 | comment | added | David | If you want to answer a question on the reason that glucose is the "king" of hexoses, ask it and answer it yourself. However think carefully. Many such evolutionary "why" questions provoke answers that assume that whatever Nature chooses must be the "best". It ain't necessarily so, and stacking up one feeble argument after another doesn't make it so. | |
| May 16, 2023 at 20:08 | comment | added | anongoodnurse | @Ryan - What came first, glucose or glycolysis? Glycolysis depends of the production of glucose. The principles of democracy (e.g. in Athens) predate the US Constitution, which was heavily influenced by Ancient Greece. Your answer is teleological. | |
| May 16, 2023 at 19:36 | comment | added | Ryan | not following the above analogy, but your persistence motivated a more explicit answer, @David | |
| May 16, 2023 at 19:34 | history | edited | Ryan | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 16, 2023 at 19:06 | comment | added | anongoodnurse | The paper is about glycolysis, not the ubiquity of glucose. It's like asking for support for democracy in Ancient Greece, and citing the American Constitution. | |
| May 16, 2023 at 18:36 | comment | added | David | @Ryan But the question is about disaccharides! The word “glycolysis” doesn’t even appear in the title. I | |
| May 16, 2023 at 18:31 | comment | added | Ryan | @anongoodnurse my answer is, glucose is preponderant because it's central metabolically, and i gave two possible explanations for this centrality. you asked for a reference as to my claim that it's central for evolutionary reasons, explanation 1. | |
| May 16, 2023 at 17:09 | comment | added | anongoodnurse | Aren't you putting the cart before the horse? The question isn't "why is glycolysis universal?" | |
| May 16, 2023 at 16:48 | comment | added | Ryan | @David my answer doesn't reference disacchararides and glycolysis because they do not exist in glycolysis! the preponderance of glucose in sugars, celloses and chitin, etc, is being explained by me in terms of its sheer abundance as a central metabolite | |
| May 16, 2023 at 16:46 | comment | added | Ryan | @jeremiah my reference includes considerations of stereochemistry | |
| May 16, 2023 at 16:45 | comment | added | Ryan | @anongoodnurse I added an evolutionary biology reference | |
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| Apr 28, 2023 at 19:06 | comment | added | jeremiah | @Ryan. Perhaps this is a question of stereochemistry. Ask a chemist. | |
| Apr 26, 2023 at 8:36 | comment | added | David | Your answer makes no connection between the composition of disaccharides and glycolysis, indeed disaccharides are not even mentioned. | |
| Apr 25, 2023 at 23:09 | comment | added | anongoodnurse | "Evolutionary biology provides evidence for explanation (1)." Can you provide a link to support this (completely reasonable) statement? Thanks. | |
| Apr 25, 2023 at 19:34 | history | answered | Ryan | CC BY-SA 4.0 |