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What are the differences between substrate level and oxidative phosphorylation?
What is the major difference in terms of energy yield between these two processes?
Oxidative phosphorylation produces significantly more ATP than substrate level phosphorylation. Specifically, one molecule of glucose can produce up to 38 molecules of ATP through oxidative phosphorylation, whereas substrate level phosphorylation produces only a net gain of 2 ATP molecules.