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Liver is unable to catabolize ketone bodies beacuse it lacks

A. hydroxy-mehtylglutaryl-CoA lyase (HGM-CoA lyase).

B. Acetyl-CoA acetyltrasferase (thiolase).

C. hydroxybutrate dehydrogenase.

D. 3-ketoacyl-CoA trasferase.

E. HMG-CoA synthase

  #2

B
This enzyme caled Thiophorase or Succinyl CoA acetoacetyl CoA transferase - an enzyme which is present only in extrahepatic tissues
( I don't get it whydo they change the name of enzymes so often?)

  #3

right.







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