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Ooh!                                                                    ...

      Ooh!                           Glycolysis                              ...
                                      is a piece
  I totally                            of cake!
understand!

  Well, it may seem easy
at first, But the process
is actually a little more

  complicated than that.

          Chemical               Chemical
         reactions              reactions

                                     Krebs

                                            ETS    Energy

Glucose                Pyruvic acid

            Cytoplasm                Mitochondria

          Wow! lots                                  Yup, breaking down
         of chemical                                glucose is trickier
         reactions...                              than you thought, eh?

             Mitochondria use                              Oxygen             Mitochondria
              pyruvic acid and              Pyruvic (O2)                     are busy little

             oxygen to create                 Acid                             guys, aren't
                 energy (ATP).                                                       they?

             This energy production is a
         complex process that consists

            of many chemical reactions
            occurring simultaneously in

                      different places.
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