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PGAL

1. acronym for Phosphoglyceraldehyde, a chemical compound that serves as an intermediate in several central metabolic pathways in all organisms

2. a phosphate ester of the 3-carbon sugar glyceraldehyde and has chemical formula: C₃H₇O₆P

3. a compound derived from PGA during the dark reactions of photosynthesis

Also known as glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate (G3P or GAP), triose phosphate, 3-phosphoglyceraldehyde (GADP)