why energy release during aerobic respiration is more than in anaerobic respiration?
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Anaerobic respiration is a process which is simple and has a few steps were a little bit of ATP is used to break down glucose to produce pyruvate. Pyruvate can't be broken down completely without oxygen so the body can't get all the possible ATP out of it. That is why in anaerobic metabolism there is much less energy given out.
The pyruvate produced in glycolysis undergoes further breakdown through a process called aerobic respiration in most organisms. This process requires oxygen and yields much more energy than glycolysis.
This is the reason why energy release during aerobic respiration is more than in anaerobic respiration.
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