Your neighbors have been feeding the birds – a lot – and nowthey’ve got rats in their yard, happily feasting on the leftoverbirdseed. You don’t want the rats near your house, and havinglittle regard for the life of vermin, you decide to place a little“deterrent†on your property. Nosing around in a lab, you findarsenic. OK, you are smart enough not to actually use it, but youcan’t help but think about it...
If a rat ingests arsenic, the enzyme __________________________will be inhibited, and the metabolic intermediate___________________________ will NOT be converted to___________________________ which is the key entry point to theenergy-generating pathway known as the ___________________________.Instead, this metabolic intermediate will be shunted into themetabolic pathway known as ___________________________ which doesnot require the function of the inhibited enzyme. The glucose-derived end-product of this pathway is ___________________________and the net energy yield from glucose is___________________________ NADH and ___________________________ATP.
