Glucose can convert to pyruvate and then to lactic acid {glycolysis}| {Embden-Meyerhof pathway}. Glycolysis makes more ATP than it uses and is anaerobic, requiring no oxygen. Glycolysis enzymes float free in cytoplasm. In first part, glucose becomes glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate by adding two ATPs to ends and splitting into two molecules. In second part, glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate becomes pyruvate and makes four ATPs. Pyruvate makes lactic acid by adding NADH.
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