What is the role of pyruvate in cellular respiration?

What form of energy do cells use? How do they make this energy? What does the food you eat have to do with any of this? This lesson addresses these questions by examining the role of pyruvate in cellular respiration. Definition of Cellular Respiration. When most people think about respiration, they think of breathing. read more

To provide this energy, your cells must break down the glucose in your food during a process called glycolysis and convert it into pyruvate, sometimes called pyruvic acid, and the molecule that feeds the Krebs cycle, our second step in cellular respiration. read more

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