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AQA A2 BIOL 4 - phosphorylation of glucose- why?

hi all,

so why does glucose need to be phosphorlyated in glycolysis?
in my textbook it says so that glucose gets activated, but what does this actually mean?

This may be a trivial question but I would like to fully understand it for my exams :tongue:
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Back to AS knowledge, activation energy is the minimum energy that is required for a reaction to take place.
Enzymes are known to reduce the minimum energy required, so the reaction can take place at a much lower energy.
So phosphorylation lowers the activation energy level and makes the glucose more reactive

According to the textbook it's used for "enzyme-controlled reactions that follows" after that which is the Co-enzymes NAD and which become reduced.

So I suppose it allows the oxidation of triose phosphate to be much more efficient and hydrolysed quicker into pyruvate?

That's what I think, not sure if I answered your question, please correct me if I am wrong?

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