triose
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any monosaccharide sugar containing three atoms of carbon per molecule
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That compound is converted to dihydroxyacetone phosphate by the enzyme triose phosphate isomerase, which is a catalytically perfect enzyme; its rate is so fast that the reaction can be assumed to be in equilibrium.
Since glucose leads to two triose sugars in the preparatory phase, each reaction in the pay-off phase occurs twice per glucose molecule.
This product is also referred to as 3-phosphoglyceraldehyde ( PGAL ) or, more generically, as triose phosphate.