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What is sugar used in?

Glycolysis (for cellular respiration) and cooking (to make food sweet).


Splitting of Sugar?

Glycolysis


Does glycolysis make sugar?

Glycolysis is a catabolic process and it doesn't prepare sugar but breaks down it into simpler materials like CO2


What substance is a product of glycolysis?

Pyruvic acid


What does the word glycolysis mean literally?

Glycolysis literally means "sugar splitting".


Glucose is converted to what during glycolysis?

Actually glucose is what sugar turns in to during glycolysis.


What substance is needed to begin glycolysis?

Glycolysis is the process that turns glucose into pyruvate. The energy released from this is then used to make the more readily usable ATP.


What is The first stage of the breakdown of sugar molecules for energy?

The first stage of the breakdown of sugar molecules for energy is glycolysis. During glycolysis, a molecule of glucose is broken down into two molecules of pyruvate, producing a small amount of ATP and NADH in the process.


What is the fuel source that is used for glycolysis?

The fuel source for glycolysis is glucose, a simple sugar molecule that serves as the primary source of energy for living organisms. Glucose is broken down through a series of enzymatic reactions in the cell to produce energy in the form of ATP.


How is glucose used in glycolysis?

Glucose is a fuel for most of our cells. Glucose or sugar is the first substrate in glycolysis which is converted to glucose-6-phospate and so on to make pyruvate. There by it enters kreb's cycle and ETC to synthesis energy or ATP.


What happens to sugar when its used in cells?

when glucose is released from glycogen, the sugar molecule can be used by the cell to produce 38 ATP molecules(2 from glycolysis, 2 from the Krebs cycle, and about 34 from the electron transport system). via catabolism.


What is the first phase of glycolysis called?

The first phase of glycolysis is called the energy-investment phase, where two molecules of ATP are used to phosphorylate glucose, forming fructose 1,6-bisphosphate.