Prescott's Microbiology
10th Edition
ISBN: 9781259281594
Author: Joanne Willey, Linda Sherwood Adjunt Professor Lecturer, Christopher J. Woolverton Professor
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 11.5, Problem 5RIA
Why is it desirable for a microbe with the Embden-Meyerhof pathway and the TCA cycle also to have the pentose phosphate pathway?
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Prescott's Microbiology
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