Question

In glycolysis, one molecule of glucose is reduced to_______

• A. fructose
• B. pyruvate
• C. phosphate
• D. phosphoglycerate

Answer 1

Answer:

B. pyruvate

• After the interaction of many co-enzymes and cytochromes, the glucose is at last reduced to two molecules of pyruvic acid which is further reduced to different usable forms in the mitochondria through the Krebs cycle.