( energies plural ) 1 n-uncount Energy is the ability and strength to do active physical things and the feeling that you are full of physical power and life. He was saving his energy for next week's race in Belgium...
means sugar splitting. during glycolysis, glucose ( a six-carbon sugar) is split into two three-carbon sugars. the smaller sugars are then oxidized and their remaining atoms rearranged to form two molecules of pyruvate.
It takes place in the cytoplasm of the cell. In glycolysis (âglucose breakingâ), ATP is used to split glucose molecules into a three-carbon compound called pyruvate. This splitting produces energy that is stored in ATP and a molecule called NADH.