The ATP yield from anaerobic respiration is low because organic compounds are incompletely broken down, and ATP is produced solely through substrate-level phosphorylation.
The ATP yield from anaerobic respiration is low because organic compounds are incompletely broken down, and ATP is produced solely through substrate-level phosphorylation.
| Front | Explain why the yield of ATP from anaerobic respiration is much lower than the yield from aerobic respiration. |
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| Back | Yield in aerobic respiration:
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