Question

Difference between glucose and pyruvate or pyruvic acid?​

Answer 1

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⁺ is the difference — pyruvic acid is an acid and at physiological pH it will donate H⁺ to water to form its conjugate base pyruvate. Biochemists will often use these (and other conjugate acid-base pairs interchangeably).

Answer 2

Answer:

Glucose Pyruvate

Glucose is CHO Pyruvate is CHO

It is a 6 – carbon It is a 3 – carbon molecule. molecule.