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What does glycolysis mean?

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  1. (biology) The cellular degradation of the simple sugar glucose to yield pyruvic acid, and ATP as an energy source.
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The cells depend on glycolysis for their main energy requirements and also require supplementation with uridine and pyruvate for growth.
Enzymes primarily involved in glycolysis and in the Krebs cycle showed only a small rise in activity.
The oxidation of one molecule of glucose via glycolysis and cell respiration releases enough energy to form 38 ATP molecules.
Many of these proteins are enzymes that participate in glycolysis and alcoholic fermentation or in other aspects of carbohydrate metabolism.
There is clear evidence of metabolite channeling in the urea cycle, the citrate cycle, glycolysis, and other metabolic pathways.
Of metabolism only a few central pathways, such as glycolysis and the tricarboxylic acid cycle, had been painstakingly unravelled.

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