Question

Glyoxysomes are useful in

• A. Converting sugars to fats
• B. Converting fats to sugars
• C. Deamination and converting amino acids to fatty acids
• D. Amination and changing fatty acids to amino acids

Answer 1

The correct option is B Converting fats to sugars

• Glyoxysomes are a type of peroxisomes found in plants and few filamentous fungi.
  
• They are particularly found in fat storage tissues of germinating seeds (peanuts, soybeans etc.) in plants.
• It helps in fatty acid oxidation, glyoxylate cycle and gluconeogenesis.
  
• They contain enzymes (citrate synthase, isocitrate lyase and malate synthase etc.) which are responsible for beta-oxidation of fatty.
• It also contains enzymes which produce intermediate products for the synthesis of sugars by gluconeogenesis.
• So, the correct answer is 'Converting fats to sugars'.