Glycolysis | Citric Acid Cycle (Kreb’s Cycle) |
1.Enzymes for glycolysis occurs inside the cytoplasm. | 1.Kreb’s cycle operates inside mitochondria because its enzymes are present in matrix. |
2.Glycolysis is the first step of respiration in which glucose is completely broken down to the level of pyruvic acid. | 2.Kreb’scycle is a cyclic process, which completely breaks an active acetyl group through decarboxylation and dehydr-genation. |
3.The process is common in both aerobic and anaerobic modes of respiration. | 3.It occurs only in aerobic mode of respiration. |
4.Glycolysis yields 2 molecules of pyruvic acid. | 4.It degrades pyruvic acid completely into inorganic substances (CO2 + H2O). |
5.It forms two molecules of NADH and two molecules of ATP for every molecule of glucose broken down. | 5.Kreb’s cycle produces four molecules of NADH2, 2 molecules of NADPH2for every two molecules or acetyl CoA oxidised by it. Two more molecules of NADH2 are liberated during conversion of pyruvic acid to Acetyl CoA. |
6. No carbon dioxide is evolved in glycolysis. | 6. Carbon dioxide is evolved in kreb’s cycle. |