Some desert beetles can survive on "metabolic water", without ever drinking liquid water which

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Some desert beetles can survive on "metabolic water", without ever drinking liquid water which (A) was produced as water in the organisms they eat. (B) is absorbed from the air along with respiratory oxygen. (C) is a breakdown product of pyruvate inside the mitochondria, along with carbon dioxide. (D) is a breakdown product from glycolysis in the cytoplasm.

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Metabolic water is created by oxidizing the energy-containing substances in their food during metabolic activity. Some organisms, especially xerocoles, animals living in the desert, rely exclusively on metabolic water. They absorb this metabolic water from the air along with the respiratory oxygen.

Q. Some desert beetles can survive on "metabolic water", without ever drinking liquid water which

was produced as water in the organisms they eat.

is absorbed from the air along with respiratory oxygen.

is a breakdown product of pyruvate inside the mitochondria, along with carbon dioxide.

is a breakdown product from glycolysis in the cytoplasm.

Metabolic water is created by oxidizing the energy-containing substances in their food during metabolic activity. Some organisms, especially xerocoles, animals living in the desert, rely exclusively on metabolic water. They absorb this metabolic water from the air along with the respiratory oxygen.