Why Is Glycolysis Considered to Be One of the First

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Multiple Choice

Why is glycolysis considered to be one of the first metabolic pathways to have evolved?

• A) It produces much less ATP than does oxidative phosphorylation.
• B) It does not involve organelles or specialized structures, does not require oxygen, and is present in most organisms.
• C) It is found in prokaryotic cells but not in eukaryotic cells.
• D) It relies on chemiosmosis, which is a metabolic mechanism present only in the first cells' prokaryotic cells.
• E) It requires the presence of membrane-enclosed cell organelles found only in eukaryotic cells.

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Definitions:

Null Hypothesis

The null hypothesis is a statement that there is no effect or no difference, and it serves as the assumption to be tested in statistical analyses.

T-test

A statistical method employed to assess if there's a significant difference between the average values of two distinct groups.

Critical Value

A point on the test distribution that is compared with the test statistic to determine whether to reject the null hypothesis.

Alpha

The level of significance in statistical testing, representing the probability of rejecting the null hypothesis when it is actually true.