Cellular Respiration Research Paper

268 Words2 Pages
The three stages of cellular respiration are glycolysis, the citric acid cycle and the electron transport chain. To explain cellular respiration, it is the aerobic harvesting of energy from food, the energy-releasing breakdown of said food, and the storage of potential energy that cells use to accomplish their respective missions (Simon, 2017). The stage I decided to focus on is glycolysis. Glycolysis happens in the cytoplasm and the actual process involves the halving of one glucose molecule into two pyruvic acid molecules (Simon, 2017). After the glucose molecule splits, some ATP is created as well as high-energy electrons carried by a NADH molecule, which is just a NAD+ molecule that picks up electrons. The ATP and high-energy electrons