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Some desert beetles can live out their life without ever drinking liquid water. They survive on "metabolic water," which


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was produced as water in the organisms they eat

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is absorbed from the air along with respiratory oxygen

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is a breakdown product of pyruvate inside the mitochondria, along with carbon dioxide

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is a breakdown product from glycolysis in the cytoplasm

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Solution

The correct option is C

is a breakdown product of pyruvate inside the mitochondria, along with carbon dioxide


This is a product of terminal oxidation.

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