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Cellular Respiration

How one glucose becomes up to ~32 ATP. It happens in three stages, in two locations. Step through and watch the ATP add up.

Glucose

ATP: 0
Cellular respirationglucose → ATP

The stages

📷 Reference image
A real labeled figure to compare with the interactive above.
Cellular Respiration reference figure
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