Question

Describe the transfer of energy from the glucose in food, to ATP, to a cell’s movement and other functions.

Answer 1

Glucose gets broken down in glycolysis into two molecules of pyruvate, which gets converted into acetyl COA and enters the TCA cycle which Reduced electron transporters (NAD+ to NADH, etc) which are oxidized by the Electron transport chain which produces a proton gradient in the mitochondria that allows production of ATP by ATP synthetase