Glucose to glucose-6-phosphate is a catabolic reaction in the first step of glycolysis...where glucose is phosphorylating to glucose-6-phosphate. Here ATP is converted to ADP so that the conversion can take place! There is investment of energy...Then why is it a catabolic reaction?
Because when we talk about anabolic reactions, we say there is an investment of energy. Then why in the reaction I mentioned above, although it is a catabolic reaction, why is there an ATP used or in other words invested?
Or is it that, in a catabolic reaction, energy is invested, but in a catabolic process or a pathway, energy is yielded?
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