Cells do not catabolize carbon dioxide because:

a) Its double bonds are too stable to be broken
b) CO2 has fewer bonding electrons than other organic compounds
c) The carbon atom is completely reduced
d) Most of the available electron energy was released by the time the CO2 was formed
e) The molecule has too few atoms

Question

Cells do not catabolize carbon dioxide because:

a) Its double bonds are too stable to be broken
b) CO2 has fewer bonding electrons than other organic compounds
c) The carbon atom is completely reduced
d) Most of the available electron energy was released by the time the CO2 was formed
e) The molecule has too few atoms

anonymous · Answer

Actually CO2 is treated as a byproduct of cell of its metabolism and the CO2 is completely oxidized and can not be catabolize further.

blues · Answer

@viendra is so close to being right ~ the CO2 is not completely oxidised, but completely reduced.

anonymous · Answer

:)