In addition to energy needs, cancer cells also need metabolic intermediates for biosynthesis. Explain how increased reliance on glycolysis would be beneficial in this respect.

In order to use more glucose to grow rapidly.

Explanation:

Increased reliance on glycolysis would be beneficial for the cancer cells to grow rapidly because this glycolysis process provides glucose molecules. Cancer cells more readily use glycolysis, which is an inefficient metabolic pathway for energy metabolism, even when sufficient oxygen is available. This reliance on aerobic glycolysis is called the Warburg effect, that promotes tumorigenesis and malignancy progression. Glycolysis only produces 2 ATP molecules per glucose molecule, it means cancer cells need uptake more glucose molecules from the surrounding environment to meet energy requirements,