Q29-39E
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What general kind of reaction does FAD carry out?
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FAD carry out the dehydrogenation reaction in order to make conjugated double bonds in biomolecules.
1Step1: What is the FAD?
FAD acts as an extremely powerful oxidizing agent due to its positive standard reduction potential. This is used by the cell in a number of high-energy oxidation processes, such as the conversion of a carbon-carbon single bond to a carbon-carbon double bond in biomolecules.
2Step 2: State the type of a reaction that FAD carried out.
Therefore, FAD carry out the dehydrogenation reactions by making a carbon-carbon double bond from the saturated bond in the biomolecules and along with FADH2.
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