KROK 1 2014 – Question 37 · KROK (Medicine) · Biological Chemistry
Human red blood cells do not contain mitochondria. What is the main pathway for ATP production in these cells?
- A. Oxidative phosphorylation
- B. Cyclase reaction
- C. Anaerobic glycolysis
- D. Aerobic glycolysis
- E. Creatine kinase reaction
Hint
Ask which ATP-producing route works entirely in the cytosol, without needing the Krebs cycle or the respiratory chain, and what it must do with its NADH.
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