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Let's explore the process of glycolysis, the first phase of cellular respiration. Learn how this process breaks down glucose into two 3-carbon compounds, using two ATPs in the investment phase and generating a net of two ATPs in the payoff phase.
Dive into glycolysis and gluconeogenesis, and understand when each pathway dominates. Discover how the body maintains this balance using fast-acting regulation like Le Chatelier's Principle and slow-acting regulation through transcriptional changes.
Overview of the Krebs or citric acid cycle, which is a series of reactions that takes in acetyl CoA and produces carbon dioxide, NADH, FADH2, and ATP or GTP.
Cellular respiration is how cells get energy from glucose. The process has three main parts: Glycolysis happens in the cytosol and breaks glucose into two pyruvate, producing 2 ATPs and 2 NADHs.
If you look at the number of carbon atoms at the start and the end of glycolysis, the image below shows how it goes. What happened to the extra three carbon atoms of glucose in the process of glycolysis?
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