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- Sep 2022
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The process of fermentation results in the reduction of pyruvate to form lactic acid and the oxidation of NADH to form NAD+.
In the fermentation process of NAD+ and Pyruvate what gets oxidized and what gets reduced?
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We can generalize the process by describing it as the returning of electrons to a derivative of the molecule that they were once removed from, usually to restore pools of an oxidizing agent. This, in short, is fermentation.
What is fermentation?
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