MCQ
Who discovered tricarboxylic acid cycle
  • A
    Watson and Crick
  • Kreb’s
  • C
    Melvin Calvin
  • D
    Meyerhoff

Answer

Correct option: B.
Kreb’s
b
(b) Kreb’s cycle ($TCA$ cycle) occurs inside the mitochondrial matrix of inner chamber. Its detail were given by sir Hans Kreb’s in pigeon muscles. It is also called citric acid cycle (first product formed is citric acid) or tricarboxylic acid cycle ($TCA$ cycle as citric acid has $3$ $COOH$ group).

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