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Glycolysis vs Glycogenolysis - What's the difference?

glycolysis | glycogenolysis |

As nouns the difference between glycolysis and glycogenolysis

is that glycolysis is the cellular degradation of the simple sugar glucose to yield pyruvic acid, and ATP as an energy source while glycogenolysis is the production of glucose-1-phosphate by splitting a glucose monomer from glycogen using inorganic phosphate.

glycolysis

English

(wikipedia glycolysis)

Noun

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  • (biology) The cellular degradation of the simple sugar glucose to yield pyruvic acid, and ATP as an energy source.

    • glycogenolysis

    English

    Noun

    (glycogenolyses)
  • (biochemistry) The production of glucose-1-phosphate by splitting a glucose monomer from glycogen using inorganic phosphate

    • Related terms

    *glycogenolytic

    See also

    *(wikipedia "glycogenolysis")