

Index 



Acetic acid 



as precursor to glutamic 



acid, 35 

 fat formation from, 57 

 formation of, 39, 47 

 from malate?, 38 

 Acetoacetyl CoA, 57, 60 

 Acetyl CoA, 38, 57 



formation from pyruvate, 47 

 Acetyl phosphate, 48 



formation from sugar phos- 

 phates, 41 

 Adenosine triphosphate (ATP) 

 free energy of formation, 4 

 function, 5, 6, 17 

 Alanine 



an early product of photo- 

 synthesis, 29 

 mechanism of formation, 33, 



34 

 in preillumination experi- 

 ments, 17 

 pyruvate formation from, 47 



rate of formation in Chlo- 

 rella pyrenoidosa, 31 



two pools of, 30 

 Aldolase, 9, 16,51 

 Algae, 12 

 Amino acids, 25 



synthesis of, 29 

 y-Aminobutyric acid, 34 

 8-Amino levulinic acid, 64 

 Aromatic compounds, 65 

 Aspartic acid, 17,29,30,31 

 ATP {see Adenosine triphos- 

 phate) 



Carbohydrates, 25 



Carbon reduction cycle of 

 photosynthesis 

 cofactor requirements, 9 

 description of, 8-12 

 evidence for, 12-16 

 figure, 11 



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