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Assertion : Glycolysis is the first step of respiration in which glucose completely breaks into and . Reason : In this process, there is net gain of twenty four molecules of ATP.
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Glycolysis is the process of breakdown of glucose or similar hexose sugar into two molecules of pyruvic acid through a series of enzyme mediated reactions, releasing energy (ATP) and reducing power . It is the first step of respiration, which occurs inside the cytoplasm and is independent of . In glycolysis, two molecules of ATP are consumed during double phosphorylation of glucose to form fructose 1, 6 diphosphate. Four molecules of ATP are produced in the conversion of 1,3-diphosphoglycerate to 3-phosphoglycerate and phosphenol pyruvate to pyruvate whereas, two molecules of are formed during oxidation of glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate to 1, 3-diphosphoglycerate. Since, each NADH is equivalent to 3 ATP, so net gain in glycolysis is 8 ATP.
