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Fermentation occurs because sugar contains energy. Microorganizism can break down sugars and extract some of the energy using fermentation in the absence of oxygen. Your body can do the same thing. First a carbon dioxide compound is removed from the sugar leaving a radical.
The fermentation does not make ATP, but it allows glycolysis to continue, and fermentation removes electrons from NADH molecules and recycles NAD+ molecules for glycolysis. Glycolysis and fermentation are practically the same things. Both occur in the cytosol and both have the same numbers of net ATP yield. However, fermentation stops with the production of ethanol or lactic acid while glycolysis makes pyruvate molecules, which continue to the Krebs/citric acid cycle in Cellular Respiration.