During cellular respiration, four total ATP are produced when pyruvic acid is created. What else is produced as a result of this reaction?(1 point)

Responses

sugar
sugar

heat
heat

water
water

oxygen
oxygen

1 answer

During cellular respiration, when pyruvic acid is created from glucose (in glycolysis), two molecules of NADH are also produced along with the four molecules of ATP. However, from the options provided, the most closely related product to this initial stage is:

heat

This is because the process of glycolysis (breaking down glucose into pyruvic acid) involves energy transformations that release some energy as heat.