Microbiology 9th Edition by Laura Black, Jacquelyn Black

Exercise 16

Which of the following statements about glycolysis is not true?
(a) Glycolysis, like fermentation, is an aerobic metabolic pathway that reduces glucose, transferring the electrons to the coenzyme ATP, which in turn passes these elec trons to the final electron acceptor, an organic molecule.
(b) Glycolysis can occur under aerobic or anaerobic con ditions and is a metabolic pathway by which glucose is oxidized to pyruvic acid.
(c) Glycolysis depends on the expenditure of two ATPs in substrate-level phosphorylations of the glucose mol ecule to initiate the metabolic pathway.
(d) Energy from glycolysis is captured in the form of ATP at the substrate level when released energy from sub strate molecules (late in the process) is used to form high-energy bonds between ADP and Pi.
(e) Glycolysis is a metabolic process that splits glucose(a six-carbon molecule) into two three-carbon mol ecules of pyruvic acid that captures a relatively small amount of energy in the form of ATP compared to electron transport and oxidative phosphorylation.