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Complete oxidation of NADH and FADH2 will produce how many ATPs as per recent concepts?


Ram Mohan Nayak 10th Mar, 2019
Answer (1)
masteranshu27 10th Mar, 2019

Old (previous) concepts -


Complete oxidation of 1 molecule of NADH will produce 3 molecules of ATP.

Complete oxidation of 1 molecule of FADH2 will produce 2 molecules of ATP.


New (recent) concepts -


Complete oxidation of 1 molecule of NADH will produce 2.5 molecules of ATP.

Complete oxidation of 1 molecule of FADH2 will produce 1.5 molecules of ATP.


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