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DISCUSSION 



Krebs: Can formic acid be replaced in the animal experiments by 

 methyl alcohol or formaldehyde? 



Wood: Siegel and Lafaye in our laboratory, using rat liver homo- 

 genates, have shown that formaldehyde enters serine even more rapidly 



