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Why is cellular respiration considered to be more efficient than glycolysis alone?

April 26, 2017cellular glycolysis respiration

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Why is cellular respiration considered to be more efficient than glycolysis alone?

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Glycolysis generates only 2 molecules of ATP per molecule of glucose broken. Cellular respiration as a whole, however, produce 36 (eukaryotic) or 38 (prokaryotic) molecules of ATP per molecule of glucose respired.