Drag the labels to complete these sentences discussing the relationship between the work of Louts Pasteur and Joseph Lister. In 1857, Louis Pasteur discovered that specific organisms carry out chemical reactions and create ___ end-products such as alcohol and lactic acid. Pasteur is also credited with the process of pasteurization which removes pathogens from consumable liquids, reducing infection and subsequent illness. The papers that Pasteur published regarding the germ theory of phenol and disproving the hypotheses were read by his contemporary Joseph Lister, a surgeon battling high post-surgical mortality in his patients.

The fermentation process was understood and explained by Louis Pasteur as the process which takes place in the anaerobic conditions used by the microbes to survive like yeast. During fermentation, the process converts the glucose to metabolites called lactic acid, carbon dioxide and alcohol.This process is now utilised by the food industry to make a variety of products.

Thus, Metabolic is the correct answer.