Suppose that in a cell culture experiment you add glucose uniformly labeled with carbon-14 to the culture medium. You then assay for the kinetics of carbon-14 incorporation into various amino acids. You find that carbon-14 is incorporated into histidine before it is incorporated into aspartate. Why?
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