Why is the breakdown of pyruvate essential in the process of anaerobic fermentation? It results in the regeneration of NAD+ It provides the source of glucose to be converted to pyruvate in glycolysis It provides prokaryotic organisms with additional ATP that would not be generated during glycolysis It produces the coenzyme A that is used to create the substrate for the Krebs cycle
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