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Fermentation Outline
Biology
Mrs. Maynard
Aiyanna Reddest
11/4/19
Fermentation
Fermentation allows glycolysis to continue
 Glycolysis yields two ATP molecules when it splits glucose into two molecules of pyruvate.
 Glycolysis is always occurring and does not require oxygen.
 If oxygen is available, the products of glycolysis—pyruvate and the other electron carrier NADH
—are used in cellular respiration.
 The production of ATP without oxygen continues through the anaerobic processes of glycolysis
and fermentation.
 Fermentation does not make ATP, but it allows glycolysis to continue.
 Fermentation removes electrons from NADH molecules and recycles NAD + molecules for
glycolysis.
 Because glycolysis just like cellular respiration, needs a molecule that picks up electrons.
 It needs molecules of NAD
+
 Without NAD + to pick up high-energy electrons from the splitting of glucose glycolysis would
stop.