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Which stage of cellular respiration yields the greatest number of atp molcules per glucose molecule? what is the name of this stage?

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That would be oxidative phosphorylation...this involves the electron transport chain; takes one NADH to make 2.5 ATP, one FADH2 to make 1.5 ATP...overall you make 34 ATP molecules.
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