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Do plants digest substances they ingest?
It's unclear to me if the question is asking generally about all plants, or only refers to digestion of food items by carnivorous plants.
If asking about plants generally, they don't to my knowledge ...
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Do Mannose and Galactose yield the same products as Glucose when oxidized?
The answer to this question is yes. And it is obvious to anyone familiar with metabolism. I hesitated to give a formal answer, but I hate answers in comments, so let me supplement this with some ‘...
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Are there irreversible metabolic reactions that can happen in opposite ways depending on the cellular conditions?
Reversibility of biochemical reactions
The general view of the way “irreversibility” is regarded in biochemistry is well summarized by the respected enzymologist, Athel Cornish-Bowden:
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