A young child has recently been diagnosed with Pompe disease, which causes severe muscle weakness and muscle tone. The patient lacks the enzyme alpha-glucosidase (GAA). A lack of this enzyme leads to accumulation of the carbohydrate glycogen in muscle cells. Based on your knowledge of biological macromolecules, which argument best supports why this disease is occurring? Question 13 options: Glycogen is a protein and the enzyme, alpha-glucosidase, is not breaking it down into the lipid glucose. Glycogen is a protein and the enzyme, alpha-glucosidase, is not breaking it down into the nucleic acid glycerol . Glycogen is a polysaccharide and the enzyme, alpha-glucosidase, is not breaking it down into its monomer, fatty acids and glycerol. Glycogen is a polysaccharide and the enzyme, alpha-glucosidase, is not breaking it down into the monosaccharide glucose.

Glycogen is a polysaccharide and the enzyme, alpha-glucosidase, is not breaking it down into the monosaccharide glucose.

Explanation:

Pompe disease is an inheritable disorder that affects many parts of the body, especially the heart and other muscles.

People that are diagnosed with the disease present a defect in a gene called AAG. The enzyme alpha acid glucosidase is not present in the organism or it just does not work properly. These people have problems in processing the polysaccharide glycogen.

The AAG enzyme is located in the lysosomes, and its function is to decompose the polysaccharide glycogen (complex sugar) into the monosaccharide glucose (a simpler sugar). This last one is the source of energy of the organism.

The unproperly functioning of the enzyme causes the accumulation of glycogen in lysosomes of the macrophages.

step 1 ammonium can be absorbed by plants, but some is converted into nitrates which are better for plants to absorb. this is called nitrification. 2. step 2 the deer eats the plants and uses the nitrogen-containing proteins for cell growth. 3. step 3 bacteria in the soil conduct nitrogen fixation to convert nitrogen gas from the atmosphere into ammonium. 4. step 4 some of the nitrates are absorbed back into plants, but denitrification breaks down the nitrates into nitrogen gas released back into the atmosphere. 5. step 5 nitrogen is found in the urine, which gets broken down into ammonium through the process of ammonification. 6. step 6 plants absorb the ammonium and begin assimilation, the process to add the nitrogen to protein.