1. The lecture discusses metabolic pathways including glycolysis, the citric acid cycle, and fermentation.
2. Glycolysis and the citric acid cycle generate ATP through oxidative phosphorylation when oxygen is present, but fermentation regenerates NAD+ without oxygen to continue glycolysis.
3. Fermentation produces molecules like lactate or ethanol to regenerate NAD+, yielding less ATP than aerobic respiration which produces up to 36 ATP per glucose.