Question
What is lactic acid fermentation?
✓
Answer
It is a process of anaerobic respiration where the pyruvic acid undergoes reduction by addition of one proton and two electrons donated by $NADH+H^+$ to form lactic acid as the product and $NAD^+$ as the byproduct of oxidation. Skeletal muscles usually derive energy by this process. It is represented as follows: 
Need a full question paper?
Generate a complete, print-ready paper with questions like this in minutes — across 16+ boards, with answer keys.
Explore more
Similar questions
Which are the two reactions involved in the process of photosynthesis.
How is the arrangement of vascular bundles in dicot and monocot stem?
While teaching respiration professor said that oxygen is important for respiration in humans, Rakesh kept thinking, where exactly oxygen is required during cellular respiration? What would be the correct explanation for his doubt?
How are these waste eliminated?
“Lysosomes are called suicide bags of the cells”. Why?
Who discovered the Carbon fixation pathway? How was the pathway studied?
Write in detail about the Phylogeny.
Complete the given table representing types of meristematic tissue based on its function.
Rita’s mother while cleaning the house spotted a darkish reddish to blackish brown coloured capsule glued on the crack. Her mother showed it to Rita and asked her about it. Rita recollected that it resembles to a picture shown by her teacher in classroom while teaching about cockroach. What it must be?
Why meiosis is important?