Which of the following correctly lists the net products generated from one molecule of glucose during glycolysis?

Core Concept

Glycolysis is a ten-step cytosolic pathway in which each glucose is split into two three-carbon pyruvate molecules. Four ATP are produced by substrate-level phosphorylation, but two ATP are invested in the priming steps, leaving a net gain of two. Two NADH form when glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate is oxidized by NAD+. These modest yields explain why glycolysis alone supplies far less ATP than complete aerobic respiration.