During the oxidation of an amino acid through the Citric acid cycle or the Kreb’s cycle produces 2 ATP. Through oxidation of Glucose also 2 ATP molecules are obtained.
In the citric acid cycle the acetate is consumed along with water and the NAD+ is reduced to NADH with carbon dioxide as its waste product and stored in the form of chemical energy as two molecules of Adenosine triphosphate (ATP). In oxidation of glucose through glycolysis without the use of Oxygen 2 molecules of ATP is produced.
Researchers can use molecular homologies to reveal the number of mutations in a particular sequence that has occurred in each species since they diverged from a common ancestor
