The first step in the glycolysis pathway involves adding a phosphate group to glucose. The significance of this is: to directly produce the first ATP molecule to add negative groups to help keep glucose in the cell to convert glucose into an enzyme to prevent excess glucose from entering the cell all of these

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Human Anatomy & Physiology (11th Edition)

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The first step in the glycolysis pathway involves adding a phosphate group to glucose. The significance of this is:

		to directly produce the first ATP molecule
		to add negative groups to help keep glucose in the cell
		to convert glucose into an enzyme
		to prevent excess glucose from entering the cell
		all of these

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Glycolysis is the biochemical process in which glucose is oxidised to pyruvic acid without the presence of oxygen within the cell cytoplasm and produce two molecules of ATP, to molecule of NADH + H⁺and 2 molecules of water.