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Lactic Acid Fermentation

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Lactic acid fermentation reduces pyruvate directly to lactate, regenerating NAD+ without releasing any carbon dioxide.

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Bacteria fermenting milk sugar into lactate, rather than any animal cell, are what turn milk into yogurt.

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Lactic acid fermentation releases no carbon dioxide and yields no ATP beyond glycolysis's own — students conflate it with alcohol fermentation's gas release.