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All it means is we take this fatty acid into the mitochondria, and it goes through this process of oxidation, hydration, and again, more oxidation, and then what's something called thylation, and you make something called acetyl-CoA.
And then what happens with the acetyl-CoA is generally in the mitochondria, it'll go through the electron, it'll actually go through the Krebs cycle, generate NADHs, FADH2s, and then from there, you can make something like energy, well, particularly FADH2s, NADHs, they can utilize in the electron transport chain to make ATP.
What's left is a two-carbon compound called acetylcoenzyme A, or acetyl-CoA.
Enzymes also help join the acetyl-CoA in a four-carbon molecule called oxaloacetic acid.
as acetyl CoA. Acetyl CoA is then placed into the Krebs cycle in the liver cells to produce
liver has all of these acetyl CoA lying around so it decides to break it down into two substances
This is where glucose and fats have been broken down into Acetyl CoA
and fat into acetyl CoA to keep your biological processes at work.