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Structural Biochemistry/Lipids/Fatty Acids/The growing fatty acid chain is elongated
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Elongation takes place by the sequential addition of two-carbon units taken from acetyl CoA. Malonyl ACP plays the donar of two-carbon units. Furthermore, CO2 facilitates and drives the elongation reaction.