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Question
When a substrate is being metabolized, why does not all the energy that released in one step. It is released in multiple steps.What is the advantage of step-wise release?
Solution
The complete combustion of glucose, which produces CO2 and H2O as end products, yields energy most of which is given out as heat.
C6H12O6 + 6O2 → 6CO2 + 6H2O + Energy
If this energy is to be useful to the cell, it should be able to utilise it to synthesise other molecules that the cell requires. The strategy that the plant cell uses is to catabolise the glucose molecule in such a way that not all the liberated energy goes out as heat. The key is to oxidise glucose not in one step but. in several small steps enabling some steps to be just large enough such that the energy released can be coupled to ATP synthesis.
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