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MHT CET · BIOLOGY · STD 11 - 13. Respiration and Energy Transfer

During aerobic respiration, the total number of ATP formed through oxidative phosphorylation / ETS from one glucose molecule is ____.

  1. A thirty
  2. B thirty eight
  3. C eight
  4. D thirty four
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(B) thirty eight

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The complete oxidation of glucose results in the production of 10 NADH molecules, which generate 30 ATP through oxidative phosphorylation, and 2 FADH2 molecules, which produce 4 ATP. Additionally, during glycolysis and the Krebs cycle, a net of 4 ATP molecules are formed through substrate-level phosphorylation. Thus, the total ATP yield is 30 +4+4=38 ATP.