Lone Rock Beach and Horseshoe Bend in Page, Arizona. After we left Holbrook, we headed over towards Flagstaff, Arizona to stock up on some supplies and do some housekeeping.
Glycolysis involves nine distinct reactions that convert glucose into pyruvate. In this section, we will cover the first four of these reactions, which convert glucose into glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate.
The entire process converts glucose into forms of energy the cell can easily use through two enzymatic pathways. In the first pathway, the 6-carbon glucose compound is broken down to pyruvic acid, a 3-carbon compound, which has several alternate uses depending on the needs of the cell.