In addition to glucose, many other carbohydrates ultimately enter the glycolytic pathway to undergo energy-yielding degradation. The most significant are the storage polysaccharides glycogen and starch, the disaccharides maltose, lactose, trehalose, and sucrose, and the monosaccharides fructose, mannose, and galactose. We shall now consider the pathways by which these carbohydrates can enter glycolysis.
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