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What do motichondria break down?

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Anonymous

12y ago
Updated: 8/20/2019

Pyruvate ( the result of glucose breakdown in glycolysis ), a three carbon molecule, enters the Citric acid cycle and through a series of oxidation and reduction events electrons are stripped for the electron transport chain while another organic molecule is reconstituted so the cycle can begin again. Then the mitochondria uses those electrons in the transport chain to synthesize ATP.

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12y ago

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