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Question
Comment on the statement – Respiration is an energy producing process but ATP is being used in some steps of the process.
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Solution
The phosphorylation reaction is the glycolysis process in which glucose is converted to glucose – 6 – phosphate which consumes one ATP.
Although the overall ATP produced by the complete oxidation of the substrate is more than the amount of energy spent on some metabolic processes.
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