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When a cell imports food, it is broken down and fed into various portions of the glycosidic pathway. Redox factors NAD and FAD mediate enzymatic reactions in the pathway and are reduced to NADH & FADH2 respectively. The short answer from here is that these molecules go through another pathway (electron transport chain) in the mitochondria where they are used to form a proton gradient. This gradient is used to drive ATP synthesis (the cells main energy source).

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