Question

What is the fate of pyruvic acid in an organism that uses aerobic respiration?

a. it is reduced to lactic acid.
b. it reacts with oxaloacetate to form citrate?

Answer 1

it is converted to acetyl coenzyme

Step-by-step explanation:

A better known as acetyl CoA. Pyruvic acid, the product of glycolysis, can not enter the Krebbs-Cycle directly, it must loose one molecule of CO2 and become a 2 carbon compound by decarboxylation resulting in acetyl coA.

Answer 2

your answer is It is converted into acetyl CoA.