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Mar 4, 2018 at 16:47 comment added Stefan Also, you cannot fully oxidize an organic molecule simply by dehydrogenetation, to get all the chemical energy out of it you need an electron acceptor (most commonly oxygen); that applies to all organic compounds, glucose was just an example.
Mar 4, 2018 at 16:37 comment added Stefan Nevertheless, aerobic respiration provides more energy out of a unit of substrate than anaerobic respiration. Hence, where ever aerobic respiration is possible, aerobes are far more prevalent than anaerobes.
Mar 4, 2018 at 15:20 comment added Stefan Oxygen is by far the most common oxidizer (hence the name!) in biology on Earth.
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