What is Tricarboxylic Acid Cycle?
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Tricarboxylic Acid Cycle
- It is a cycle of Respiration
- TCA cycle also known as Citric acid cycle because 1st compound in this Cycle formed is citric acid
- Generally it is a ATP welding cycle
- There is also one more name of TCA cycle i.e. Kreb cycle which was named after the scientists Sir.Hans Kreb
- Generally Kreb cycle is a series of chemical reaction used by all areobic organism to release stored energy from Acetyl Coenzymes A
- The cycle harnesses the available chemical energy of acetyl coenzyme A (acetyl CoA) into the reducing power of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NADH).
- The function of the citric acid cycle is the harvesting of high-energy electrons from carbon fuels. Note that the citric acid cycle itself neither generates a large amount of ATP nor includes oxygen as a reactant
- Total 12 ATP produced in this Cycle
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