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what happen to fatty acid before they form the respiratory substrate ?

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Fatty acid molecules are broken down in the mitochondria to generate acetyl-coA, which enters the citric acid cycle, and NADH, FADH2 to be used by the electron transport chain through the Beta – oxidation process.

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