Fermentation

If you exercise for a certain amount of time, your muscles must regenerate ATP. Normally, they do this using cellular respiration in the mitochondria using oxygen. But when you sprint, your lungs can’t get enough oxygen to your cells fast enough. That’s when _____________ - making ATP without oxygen - takes place.

• fermentation

• photosynthesis

• digestion

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Fermentation makes ATP entirely from glycolysis. Since it takes place in the cytoplasm of the cell, the mitochondria are _____________.

• inactivated

• also involved

• not involved

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By burning enough glucose, fermentation can regenerate enough ATP for _______ bursts of energy.

• prolonged

• short

Fermentation in muscle cells produces a waste product called ____________. The buildup of this product makes you feel fatigue and soreness.

• glucose

• ethanol

• lactic acid

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Yeast can be forced into an anaerobic environment - an environment without oxygen - to carry out _________ fermentation.

• anabolic

• alcoholic

• metabolic

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The two products of yeast fermentation are alcohol and CO₂ and this process is utilized in the _______&_______ industries

• exercise & fitness

• brewery & winery

• nutrition & cooking

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In food industries, several types of fungi and bacteria are forced into ___________ environments in order to transform milk into cheese and yogurt, soybeans into soy sauce, and cabbage into sauerkraut.

• anaerobic

• aerobic

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In the cheese- and yogurt-making industry, organisms produce lactic acid, which ends up ____________the food product.

• spoiling

• flavoring

• energizing

Some bacteria found in still ponds or deep in the soil are ___________ if they come into contact with oxygen.

• energized

• revitalized

• poisoned