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Anaerobic Pathway

* Before you start reading about the anaerobic pathway, do the ETS and chemiosmosis until you know them all.

Anaerobic means "without oxygen." As you probably know by now, oxygen is essential for most life forms. But why? And why can some life forms live without oxygen? You are about to find out. But first, watch the following video to understand what happens when there is no oxygen available to the processes that take place in the mitochondria.

 

 

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