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A study guide for biochemistry made back in November of 2010.

This chart illustrates the Citric Acid Cycle, named so after the Citrate that it readily produces, and sometimes called the Tri-Carboxylic Acid (TCA) Cycle by pretentious nerds that love making technical acronyms, or formerly the Krebs Cycle because Hans Adolf Krebs wanted to plug his name into every subsequent academic text on biology.

In a very basic form it is the repeating enzyme pathway that all aerobic cells use to release the energy from carbohydrates into Adenosine Tri-Phosphate (ATP) by oxidizing Acetyl-Coenzyme-A (pictured above at the top). Actually this chart begins with pyruvate, which comes from glyocolysis, but that's a different chart entirely...

Feel free to use this for the inevitable final exam which will probably ask for the entire pathway labeled with substrates, enzymes, and products because your professor has been repeating this crap for years and does not care if you memorize it or not.

Description
A study guide for biochemistry made back in November of 2010.

This chart illustrates the Citric Acid Cycle, named so after the Citrate that it readily produces, and sometimes called the Tri-Carboxylic Acid (TCA) Cycle by pretentious nerds that love making technical acronyms, or formerly the Krebs Cycle because Hans Adolf Krebs wanted to plug his name into every subsequent academic text on biology.

In a very basic form it is the repeating enzyme pathway that all aerobic cells use to release the energy from carbohydrates into Adenosine Tri-Phosphate (ATP) by oxidizing Acetyl-Coenzyme-A (pictured above at the top). Actually this chart begins with pyruvate, which comes from glyocolysis, but that's a different chart entirely...

Feel free to use this for the inevitable final exam which will probably ask for the entire pathway labeled with substrates, enzymes, and products because your professor has been repeating this crap for years and does not care if you memorize it or not.