Question

Does the oxidation of glucose differ between plant and animal cells? In your own words, and in one or two sentences, explain your reasoning making reference to specific molecules and/or cellular components as needed.

Answer 1

The answer is no, the oxidation pathway of glucose per se is not different in plants compared to animals. You can guess that by knowing how a metabolical pathway works, it requires specific reactions that can only be efficiently undergone by specific enzymes and specific results come up at the end. These enzymes and reactions are shared between these 2 big eukaryotic groups.

Have in mind that glucose oxidation occurs in plant cells that are not capable of undergoing photosynthesis (roots for example), so don't get confused with this other pathway, photosynthesis is occuring in other cells.

Although it has been widely studied how plants overlap glucose oxidation pathways with other cycles they have, this fact does not modifies the original sugar oxidation made.