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Lactic acid fermentation
Lactic acid fermentation
is a biological process by which
glucose
and other
six-carbon sugar
s (also,
disaccharides
of six-carbon sugars, e.g.
sucrose
or
lactose
) are converted into cellular energy and the metabolite
lactate
. It is an anaerobic
fermentation
reaction that occurs in some bacteria and
animal cells
, such as
muscle cells
.
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