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- 1. a metabolic process in which energy is generated from food molecules without using oxygen.
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- Anaerobic respiration
The enzymatic release of energy from inorganic and organic compounds which uses compounds other than oxygen as the terminal electron acceptor.
Anaerobic respiration is respiration using electron acceptors other than molecular oxygen (O 2 ). Although oxygen is not the final electron acceptor, the process still uses a respiratory electron transport chain. In aerobic organisms undergoing respiration, electrons are shuttled to an electron transport chain, and the final electron acceptor is oxygen. Molecular oxygen is an excellent electron ac... Wikipedia
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