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Does fermentation produce oxygen?


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Fermentation:

  1. Fermentation is the chemical process by which molecules such as glucose are broken down anaerobically (non-oxygen-requiring pathway).
  2. No, fermentation does not produce or use oxygen.
  3. Instead, alcoholic fermentation produces carbon dioxide gas with ethanol.

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