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When your muscle cells do not get enough oxygen, fermentation can create?

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Your muscles are forced to work without enough oxygen. In these situations, your working muscles generate ATP anaerobically (i.e., without oxygen) using a process called fermentation. Fermentation is beneficial in that it can generate ATP quickly for working muscle cells when oxygen is scarce.

Step-by-step explanation:

When oxygen is not present or if an organism is not able to undergo aerobic respiration, pyruvate will undergo a process called fermentation. Fermentation does not require oxygen and is therefore anaerobic. Fermentation will replenish NAD+ from the NADH + H+ produced in glycolysis.

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Lactic acid. Your body is able to convert it to energy without using oxygen.
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