Cellular Respiration And Pyruvate Four ATP

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Cells oxidize food such as glucose and metabolize it, releasing CO2 and H20, and trapping energy in the form of ATP. Cellular Respiration begins in the cytoplasm with glycolysis. Glycolysis takes one glucose molecule and splits it into two Pyruvate molecules. Two ATP are required to start glycolysis along with the Pyruvate four ATP. After this process, two NADH energy molecules are made. The Pyruvate is broken down again into Acetyl-CoA while transported; where in the presence of oxygen it enters the Citric Acid Cycle. The Citric Acid Cycle (occurring within the mitochondria) bonds 4 carbon to the Acetol-CoA with water releasing CO2 and forming a six carbon that is used .The six-carbon is oxidized, forming NADH and FADH molecules and releasing

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