The end product of glycolysis is

✅ Explanation: Glycolysis is the metabolic pathway that breaks down glucose into two molecules of pyruvate (pyruvic acid). This process occurs in the cytoplasm of the cell and generates a small amount of ATP and NADH, which are energy carriers.

🔑Key Points :
-An important feature of all living cells is respiration which is related to the liberation of metabolic energy as ATP.
-Respiration is an amphibolic and exergonic cellular process.
-Respiration is of two types.
-Aerobic respiration- with the use of oxygen. Eg plants
-Anaerobic respiration- without the use of oxygen. Eg yeast
-Steps of aerobic respiration- Glycolysis, Krebs cycle, ETS.
-The term glycolysis has originated from the Greek words, glycos for sugar, and lysis for splitting.
-The scheme of glycolysis was given by Gustav Embden, Otto Meyerhof, and J. Parnas, and is often referred to as the EMP pathway.
-In anaerobic organisms, it is the only process in respiration.
-Glycolysis occurs in the cytoplasm of the cell and is present in all living organisms.
-In this process of glycolysis, glucose undergoes partial oxidation to form two molecules of pyruvic acid.
-In plants, this glucose is derived from sucrose, which is the end product of photosynthesis, or from storage carbohydrates.
-Sucrose is converted into glucose and fructose by the enzyme, invertase, and these two monosaccharides readily enter the glycolytic pathway.
-Glucose and fructose are phosphorylated to give rise to glucose-6- phosphate by the activity of the enzyme hexokinase.
-This phosphorylated form of glucose then isomerizes to produce fructose-6- phosphate.
-Subsequent steps of the metabolism of glucose and fructose are the same.
-In glycolysis, a chain of ten reactions, under the control of different enzymes, takes place to produce pyruvate from glucose.