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Acetyl CoA combines with a 4-carbon compound to form citric acid. Citric acid
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Any reaction associated to the krebs cycle is related to the evolution of glycolysis.

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1st molecule produced in a Krebs cycle is citrate,in presence of enzyme citrate synthase.it is a 3 carbon atom compound,so the cycle is also known as TCA/tricarboxylic acid cycle.

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A carbon atom is removed from pyruvis acid (pyruvate) turning it into ACETYL-CoA.

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Why do human need oxygen to survive?

Oxygen is required for cellular respiration, the production of ATP. Oxygen is an electron receptor in the Krebs cycle with reaction that transforms O2 to C02 fueling every chemical reaction (albeit indirectly) in the body.


What product of the Krebs cycle is considered a waste of the reaction?

Carbon dioxide


What does the Krebs cycle do in cellular respiration?

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An ATP forming reaction that requires oxygen?

Cellular respiration or the Krebs cycle.


What product of the Krebs cycle is considered a waste products of the reaction?

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Why would the Krebs cycle not occur?

If there is cell death (or death of the organism), then all intracellular chemical processes, including the Krebs cycle, would cease.


Substrate-level phosphorylation occurs within a metabolic pathway where sufficient energy is released by a given chemical reaction to drive the synthesis of ATP from ADP and phosphate Substrate-level?

both glycolysis and the Krebs cycle


What is the reaction of the cellular respiration in the cell?

there are three. glycolysis, the Krebs Cycle, and the electron transport chain.


What is cyclic about the reaction make up Krebs cycle?

The first reactant and last product are the same.


Fats can be broken into what which could build a chemical needed for the Krebs cycle?

Fatty acids


The purpose of the Krebs cycle is to?

Provide Cells with useable Bio-Chemical Energy in the Form of ATP.