Name the starting material for fatty acid synthesis.

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All right. Hello everyone. So this question is asking us to determine if the statement below about fatty acid synthesis is true or false. It says that the starting material is Malan Kay. So first and foremost, as the name implies, recall that fatty acid synthesis is a biochemical process that takes place in the cytoplasm, primarily in the liver and in fatty or adipose tissue. So what's happening here is that fatty acids are being synthesized and this is crucial not only for energy storage because that's the role of fat in organisms in general, but it's also essential in building cell membranes because cell membranes, if you recall are made up of a bilayer made up of fatty acids. Now, the synthesis of fatty acids is made up of three primary steps. The first step is carboxyl. The second is elongation of the chain and the third step is the formation of the final product. So now the question is, what is the starting material of fatty acid synthesis? What is being carboxylate in the initial step? And the answer is actually a seat of coe and so the product after acetyl coa is carboxylate is Melany coa but Melany coa is not the starting material rather it's an intermediate. It is the product of acetyl coa which is the true starting material getting carboxylate. And so the statement as written is false because the starting material of fatty acid synthesis is actually Aceto coa and there you have it. So with that being said, thank you so very much for watching and I hope you found this helpful.

Name the starting material for fatty acid synthesis.

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Key Concepts

Acetyl-CoA

Fatty Acid Synthase

Malonyl-CoA