Glycolysis, Cellular Respiration and Fermentation Tutorial

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During the glycolysis pathway the 6 carbon sugar is split and ends up as 2 pyruvate molecules with 3 carbons each. The overall pathway gets its name from this sugar splitting (glyco = sugar, lysis = split).

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