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Where in the human body does pyruvate undergo aerobic breakdown?

ANucleus

BMitochondria

CCytoplasm

DMuscles

Answer:

B. Mitochondria

Read Explanation:

  • The majority of archaea, eukaryotes, and bacteria break down glucose using a process known as glycolysis.

  • It is in charge of generating compounds that serve as precursors for the metabolic processes carried out inside cells as well as energy and reduced electron carriers.

  • Pyruvate can go through either aerobic or anaerobic respiration after glycolysis to go through additional breakdown and release more energy.

  • The breakdown of pyruvate using O₂ takes place in the mitochondria matrix.

  • When glucose gets converted to pyruvate by glycolysis, only a small fraction of the total free energy potentially available from the glucose is released.

  • In mitochondria, when the metabolism of sugars is completed: the pyruvate is imported into the mitochondria and oxidized by O₂ to CO2 and H2O.

  • When oxygen is present, pyruvate enters the Krebs cycle in the mitochondria where it is broken down anaerobically.

  • This allows 15 times more ATP to be made as compared to that produced by glycolysis alone.


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