• calmblue75@lemmy.ml
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    8 hours ago

    Cells can’t use the energy from sugar directly.

    Well, they can, but it’s not very efficient. They produce 4 atp at the cost of 2 atp. The mitochondrion generates 34 atp from pyruvic acid at the cost of 2 atp.