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If a pyruvate starts fermentation, what happens next?

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During fermentation, reduced NADH from glycolysis is used to reduce pyruvate. Pyruvate is reduced into ethanol or lactate. Pyruvate is created during glycolysis from glucose. During fermentation, this molecule is broken down to lactate by lactate dehydrogenase or to acetaldehyde by pyruvate decarboxylase (and then to ethanol).

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