DIY Glycolysis

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Keeping Track

You need to keep track of the amount of ATP you have made and the level of oxidation/reduction. A status line at the bottom of the page will do this for you. You will 'spend' ATP if you use it to phosphorylate and 'earn' ATP if you dephosporylate the substrate by transfering the phosphate group to ADP. Redox is reckoned as the number of electrons removed from glucose.

When you split glucose in two you will have two moles of substrate per mole of glucose so each step will count twice.