How do yeast cells make alcohol and cause bread to rise?

Under ideal conditions, the fermentation of one glucose molecule by a bacterium allows a net gain of how many ATP molecules?

a. 2

b. 4

c. 38

d. 0

Anaerobic respiration typically uses (organic/inorganic)________ molecules as final electron acceptors.

How does oxidation of a molecule occur without oxygen?

What happens to the carbon atoms in sugar catabolized by Escherichia coli?

Commercially produced beers and wines are usually fermented with the aid of _______.

a. naturally occurring bacteria

b. naturally occurring yeast

c. specific cultured bacteria

d. specific cultured yeast

Which of the following would be the best growth medium to use for industrial fermentations?

a. corn

b. synthetic medium made by hand

c. whey from cheese production

d. brewing mash

Industrial fermentation _________.

a. always involves alcohol production

b. involves the large-scale production of any beneficial compound

c. refers to the oxidation of sugars using organic electron acceptors

d. is any desirable change to food by microbial metabolism

Indicate whether each of the following statements is true or false. Rewrite the underlined phrase to make a false statement true.

______The fermentation of dairy products relies on mixed acid fermentation.