Question

Yeast breakdown glucose into ___________ and carbon di-oxide.

Answer 1

Glucose is broken down into ethanol and carbon dioxide in yeast.

• Yeast follows anaerobic respiration which occurs in the absence of oxygen.

• Anaerobic respiration is a type of reaction which takes place in the absence of oxygen and it produces carbon dioxide.
• When oxygen is absent many cells are capable to use glycolysis to produce ATP.

• Anaerobic respiration occurs in yeast and other bacteria in which the glucose is broken down into pyruvate in the absence of oxygen.
• In the serial reaction of anaerobic reaction, glucose breaks down into ethanol, and carbon dioxide and also produces two molecules of ATP.
• In yeast, the glucose is broken down in the cytoplasm of the yeast cell which produces glucose and ATP.

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