SOVEREIGN · INQ·12

M3 · The Disassembly Line

One 6-carbon glucose is torn into two 3-carbon pyruvates across ten enzymes — in the cytosol, no oxygen required.

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ATP0–2 ▸ +4

NADH0+2 total

CARBON6one chain

ATP here is made by substrate-level phosphorylation — a phosphate handed straight from substrate to ADP. No membrane, no O₂. (The big harvest — oxidative phosphorylation — comes later, in the mitochondrion.)

carbon / glucose NADH / electrons

phosphate ATP

investment 1–5 payoff 6–10

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