The cellular respiration is the process in which the cell frees the energy stored within glucose and stores it in ATP molecules. This process is aerobic, which means that this process needs oxygen to occur.
There are three stages in this metabolic path:
First stage: Glycolysis, during this process, glucose is broken down to from 2 pyruvate molecules and 2 ATP molecules.
Second stage: Krebs cycle, during this process the pyruvate molecules obtained at the end of the glycolysis undergo a series of changes and the resulting molecule is acetyl-CoA, the energy released during this process is stored into 10NADH, 2 FADH₂, and 2 ATP molecules.
Third stage: Electron transport, this last stage occurs in the membrane of the mitochondrion, at the end of this process, 32 to 34 ATP molecules are created.
The net harvest of the complete process is 36 to 38 ATP molecules.
So, the correct option is 36 ATP
