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In animal cells, like muscles during exercise, when oxygen is inadequate for cellular respiration pyruvic acid is reduced to lactic acid by

A

Lactate decarboxylase

B

Pyruvate dehydrogenase

C

Both A and B

D

Lactate dehydrogenase

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(D) In animal cells, like muscles during exercise, when oxygen is inadequate for cellular respiration pyruvic acid is reduced to lactic acid by lactate dehydroge- nase.
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