Wax alcohol

There are many anaerobes which choose to obtain energy from glycolosis. There are two products from the pyruvate, one is alcohol like the yeast, and the other one is lactic acid like the lactobacillus. My question is that what‘s the evolution of choosing these two pathways to generate ...

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What is the biological cause of alcohol addiction? Explain the mechanics of what could be causing the addiction, theories welcome

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... beverages and estimates of beer produced locally from sorghum, millet and other agricultural products." In any case if you look at the alcohol consumption map at Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Alcohol_consumption_per_capita_world_map.PNG) the picture seems pretty clear: ...

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... to continue without an electron acceptor required by the Electron Transport Chain. Two common by-products are lactic acid in muscles and ethanol (alcohol) in yeast. In Aerobic respiration the same event occurs during glycolysis to create pyruvate but because of essential oxygen supplies the reaction ...

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... have a small population of stem cells, but they probably don't work everywhere. I've never actually been able to find the primary source on "alcohol kills brain cells." I wouldn't be surprised to find that it's one of those "common knowledge" things with no real evidence to ...

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