Chapter 15, Problem 17E

Summary Introduction

To explain: The comparison between the ATP yields of three glucose molecules of glycolysis with three glucose molecules that enters the pentose phosphate pathway.

Concept introduction: The alternative pathway of glucose oxidation is the pentose phosphate pathway, which includes 2 phases namely oxidative phase and non-oxidative phase. Glycolytic reaction is the process of reaction by which two molecules of pyruvate is formed from the phosphorylation of one molecule of glucose in which a sequence of 10 enzyme-catalyzed reactions occurs.