Not true. Aerobic prokaryotes actually produce 38 ATP per glucose vs human cells which produce 36 per glucose. Humans would produce 38 but 2 ATP must be spent to get the pyruvate molecules (product of the glucose) into the mitochondrial matrix. Prokaryotes do not incur this extra expense since they do not have mitochondria (they basically *are* the mitochondria), so they produce more ATP per glucose.
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Not true. Aerobic prokaryotes actually produce 38 ATP per glucose vs human cells which produce 36 per glucose. Humans would produce 38 but 2 ATP must be spent to get the pyruvate molecules (product of the glucose) into the mitochondrial matrix. Prokaryotes do not incur this extra expense since they do not have mitochondria (they basically *are* the mitochondria), so they produce more ATP per glucose.