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Topic 1 Application of traditional fermentation technology, what is fermentation

The original meaning of fermentation: the anaerobic metabolic process of microorganisms.

Modern definition: A process that uses the life activities of microorganisms under aerobic or anaerobic conditions to prepare the microbial cells themselves, or direct metabolites or secondary metabolites.

Biological definition: Under the conditions of anaerobic and other exogenous hydrogen acceptors, the reducing power [H] generated after dehydrogenation of the substrate is directly transferred to an endogenous intermediate metabolite without being transmitted by the respiratory chain to achieve

A type of biological oxidation reaction that produces energy through substrate-level phosphorylation.