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Stage 2: Citric acid cycle (aka TCA cycle)
The second You rule!
stage is the
citric acid
cycle!
Yay!
Actively using oxygen
to produce ATP is an
important role of a
single mitochondrion
organelle.
Cell
Mitochondrion
When pyruvate, which was “The vortex of the
created in the cytoplasm by citric acid cycle”?
breaking down glucose, is
taken into a mitochondrion...
dizzy dizzy
Pyruvate
Glycolysis Citric acid cycle
It will be sucked into
the vortex of the
citric acid cycle.
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