This takes place regardless of whether or not we actually have o, two molecules present in our cell. Now, let's suppose the cell has plenty of ATP molecules to actually go around and so it doesn't actually want to produce any more ATP molecules. What happens in this situation? So in this situation, because we don't actually want to break down the glucose molecules, we want to store the glucose molecules in a form that basically will not be broken down. And so we take the individual glucose molecules and we transform them into their polysaccharide form we call glycogen. Now, what about these pyruvate molecules and these lactate molecules?