Cellular Respiration is a process that is needed to revert stored energy into adenosine triphosphate which is also known as ATP. This process can occur in both eukaryotic and prokaryotic cells and revolves in three cycles which are glycolysis, the citric acid cycle and electron transport. After cellular respiration has occured in a cell, if the cell was eukaryotic it would have a maximum ATP yield of 36. Prokaryotic cells however would end up with a maximum ATP yield of 38 and this is because eukaryotic cells lose two ATP molecules when passing through the mitochondrial membrane after the process of glycolysis.
Sources:
Bailey, Regina. Cellular Respiration. about.com. Retrieved August 24, 2011, from http://biology.about.com/od/cellularprocesses/a/cellrespiration.htm
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