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Definition of<unk> : the breakdown of food substances in the absence of oxygen with a small amount of energy.
General word and symbol equations for the<unk>  of glucose can be shown as
The energy released is about 120 kJ per mole glucose.
In some organisms called obligate (strict) anaerobes (ex: Clostridium tetani (causes tetanus), Clostridium perfringens (causes gangrene)), the presence of oxygen is lethal. This is because the presence of oxygen is processed by the organisms into the extremely toxic molecules of singlet oxygen (1O2), superoxide ion (O2-), hydrogen peroxide (H2O2), hydroxyl ion (OH-), and other toxic molecules.
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The hydrogen peroxide produced is then transferred to a second reaction:
The oxidative powers of the superoxide ion have now been neutralized. Only facultative anaerobes and obligate aerobes possess the two enzymes necessary to reduce the superoxide.
In organisms which use glycolysis, the absence of oxygen prevents pyruvate from being metabolised to CO2 and water via the citric acid cycle and the electron transport chain (which relies on O2) does not function. Fermentation does not yield more energy than that already obtained from glycolysis (2 ATPs) but serves to regenerate NAD+ so glycolysis can continue. Various end products can also be created, such as lactate or ethanol.
Fermentation in animals is essential to human life.
In lactic acid fermentation, the following reaction occurs:
1. Glycolysis
2. Lactic acid creation
Net reaction:
In some plant cells and yeasts, fermentation produces CO2 and ethanol. The conversion of pyruvate to acetaldehyde generates CO2 and the conversion of acetaldehyde to ethanol regenerates NAD+.
Anaerobic respiration
Degenerate energy level
Cheyne-Stokes respiration
Exponential growth
Exothermic reaction
Complete glucose breakdown
Hydrogen-deuterium exchange
Ataxic respiration