The conversion of glucose 6-phosphate in the second step of glycolysis is a(n) _______ reaction:
a. Reduction
b. Dehydration
c. Isomerization
d. Phosphorylation
e. Oxidation
Q. The conversion of glucose 6-phosphate in the second step of glycolysis is a(n) _______ reaction:
C) Isomerization
Explanation: In chemistry isomerization (also isomerisation) is the process by which one molecule is transformed into another molecule which has exactly the same atoms, but the atoms have a different arrangement
Glucose 6-phosphate is first isomerized to fructose 6-phosphate by phosphoglucose isomerase.
Here glucose 6-phosphate and fructose 6-phosphate has same number of molecules arranged in diferent way. Hence both are isomers. And this reaction is called as isomerisation.
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