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Biosynthesis of cocaine, a Common card
The biosynthesis of cocaine is the natural metabolic process by which the coca plant produces cocaine, a tropane alkaloid, through a multi-step enzymatically catalyzed pathway beginning with ornithine or arginine and culminating in the formation of the cocaine metabolite benzoylecgonine.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Nature
- ATK
- 56
- DEF
- 39
- Power
- 95
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 9,000
Power 95 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 35 % of WikiCards cards.
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The biosynthesis of cocaine has long attracted the attention of ______ and organic chemists.
Answer
biochemists. The biosynthesis of cocaine has long attracted the attention of biochemists and organic chemists. From the Biosynthesis of cocaine article on Wikipedia.
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Surry Nuclear Power Plant. Surry Nuclear Power Plant 64 · Eugenia Roccella 60 · Biosynthesis of cocaine 56 · Aix 51 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Taprobana. Taprobana 17,000 · Surry Nuclear Power Plant 12,000 · Biosynthesis of cocaine 9,000 · Salt's dik-dik 7,200 Wikipedia reads over a year.
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- The biosynthesis of cocaine has long attracted the attention of biochemists and organic chemists.
- This interest is partly motivated by the strong physiological effects of cocaine, but a further incentive was the unusual bicyclic structure of the molecule.
- The biosynthesis can be viewed as occurring in two phases, one phase leading to the N-methylpyrrolinium ring, which is preserved in the final product.
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Text : Wikipedia, Biosynthesis of cocaine (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : NEUROtiker, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
