I have a bio midterm tomorrow and I’m a bit of a science dummy. I’m supposed to be able to summarize the process/inputs and outputs of cellular respiration in the three stages (glycolysis, krebs, and ETC i think?) but I’m very confused!
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input:
Glucose, a common sugar. (other things enter and exit the system every now and then)
Glycolysis: Glucose is converted to pyruvate.
Pyruvate oxidation: Pyruvate is converted to Acetyl CoA
Krebs cycle: Acetyl CoA binds to citrate and essentially does a loop, losing and gaining bits until only the citrate is left and another Acetyl CoA joins on.
Electron transport chain: in all the previous 3 steps NADH, ATP and FADH are produced. NADH and FADH go through the electron transport chain and produce 3 ATP for NADH and 2 ATP for FADH.
Inputs: Glucose (and 2 ATP)
Outputs: 38 ATP
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