During aerobic respiration, glucose is oxidized to:

Explanation

During aerobic respiration, glucose is completely oxidized in the presence of oxygen to produce carbon dioxide, water, and energy in the form of ATP. Other possible products, such as lactic acid, ethanol, or pyruvate, occur under different conditions: lactic acid forms during anaerobic respiration in muscles, ethanol and carbon dioxide form during fermentation in yeast, and pyruvate is an intermediate produced during glycolysis before further oxidation. Only carbon dioxide and water represent the final products of complete aerobic glucose oxidation.