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Gluconeogenesis & Glycogen Metabolism — Practice

Q1.Easy
A 6-month-old boy has hypotonia, lactic acidaemia and a raised plasma alanine. Activity of the first enzyme of gluconeogenesis that replenishes oxaloacetate is absent in liver biopsy, and the child cannot maintain blood glucose during fasting despite normal glycogen stores. Biotin levels are normal. The deficient enzyme is?
AFructose-1,6-bisphosphatase
BPhosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase
CGlucose-6-phosphatase
DPyruvate carboxylase