How And Why Does Fermentation Matter?
What is fermentation and why does it matter ? Fermentation is the process in which glucose is broken down in the absence of oxygen. Fermentation matters for many reasons. It's important in muscles because it allows the muscles to keep getting energy from glucose even though oxygen can't keep up with supplying. Fermentation also takes away the end products of glycolysis so that glycolysis can continue breaking down glucose and releasing energy. Fermentation is also important to the baking industry because of yeast that helps produce bubbles of carbon dioxide and that helps make dough rise for bread. Also yeast uses fermentation to produce alcohol. There are many ways fermentation is used in the body or in products but what does fermentation
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Fermentation uses and release energy from food. For example, you're playing basketball and all you're doing is running up and down the court and after a while you're starting to feel tired , but before the game started you were perfectly fine because you haven't been using any energy at the time. Therefore you are using up most oxygen as you're running back and forth. What happens when you're using up all the oxygen within you ? Using up the oxygen in you doesn't necessarily mean you can't really breath any more it just means that your energy is slowing down and that's what makes you slow down. Although it is very important to to eat before you play in any sport because the food you eat while you're playing in sports release energy out of you. What makes fermentation release energy from food is the start of glycolysis. Glycolysis is the breakdown of glucose which releases energy, When glycolysis stops working for a minute NADH is formed with in NAD. What NAD does is carry on the energy and while that energy is gone NADH comes in contact. The thing is that NADH cannot stay because it has to move on the next round of releasing energy. The only way NADH could be gone for a second is if fermentation generates ATP which provides enough energy for oxygen cells. (Biology, Matthew
Fermentation uses and release energy from food. For example, you're playing basketball and all you're doing is running up and down the court and after a while you're starting to feel tired , but before the game started you were perfectly fine because you haven't been using any energy at the time. Therefore you are using up most oxygen as you're running back and forth. What happens when you're using up all the oxygen within you ? Using up the oxygen in you doesn't necessarily mean you can't really breath any more it just means that your energy is slowing down and that's what makes you slow down. Although it is very important to to eat before you play in any sport because the food you eat while you're playing in sports release energy out of you. What makes fermentation release energy from food is the start of glycolysis. Glycolysis is the breakdown of glucose which releases energy, When glycolysis stops working for a minute NADH is formed with in NAD. What NAD does is carry on the energy and while that energy is gone NADH comes in contact. The thing is that NADH cannot stay because it has to move on the next round of releasing energy. The only way NADH could be gone for a second is if fermentation generates ATP which provides enough energy for oxygen cells. (Biology, Matthew