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OpenStudy (anonymous):

Why do cells just use fermentation?

OpenStudy (geometry_hater):

It's to keep the glucose or in other words sugar going.

OpenStudy (koikkara):

Fermentation is an alternate metabolic pathway that allows glucose to be partially metabolized when there is no final electron acceptor available to complete the electron transport chain.

OpenStudy (koikkara):

Fermentation is the first stage of cellular respiration, glycolysis, plus reduction of the electron carrier NAD+.

OpenStudy (anonymous):

in the absence of oxygen , fermentation takes place just to produce ATP continuously...for sometime.

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