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sandydd
sandydd
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High School - 9th Grade

Explain the process of glycolysis.

I don't need to know all the ten steps. I just don't know how the 2 Nadh are created and is confused that it requries 2atp molecule as an investment but end up making 2 atp molecules per glucose.

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Posted by sandydd on Thursday October 8, 2009 at 7:03 PM and tagged with biology, cellular respiration, glycolysis.

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  1. swimma-logan Student
    High School - 11th Grade

      D-[Glucose]       [Pyruvate]   + 2 [NAD]+ + 2 [ADP] + 2 [P]i 2 + 2 [NADH] + 2 H+ + 2 [ATP] + 2 H2O

     

    Cells performing aerobic respiration synthesize much more ATP, but not as part of glycolysis. These further aerobic reactions use pyruvate and NADH + H+ from glycolysis. Eukaryotic aerobic respiration produces approximately 34 additional molecules of ATP for each glucose molecule, however most of these are produced by a vastly different mechanism to the substrate-level phosphorylation in glycolysis.

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    http://biology.about.com/od/cellularprocesses/a/aa082704a...

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    Posted by swimma-logan on Monday October 12, 2009 at 6:56 AM