Example 1 · difficulty 2/5
Anaerobic fermentation by yeast releases far less energy than aerobic respiration of the same amount of glucose mainly because
- A. glucose is incompletely oxidised, so most of its energy remains trapped in ethanol
- B. yeast lacks the enzymes needed to carry out glycolysis
- C. all the ATP generated in glycolysis is spent on reducing acetaldehyde to ethanol
- D. fermentation proceeds spontaneously without the involvement of enzymes