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PLEASE HELP!!!! Explain how in glycolysis that the splitting of the glucose molecule results in ATP but there is only a net gain of 2 ATP

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There is only a net gain of 2 ATP because it creates 4 in total but costs 2 to perform. This process breaks down glucose into pyruvate in the cytoplasm.

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