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Acetyl coa enters is cyclic what we called as Krebs cycle. Follow Me : https://bit.ly/UnacademyMS Krebs cycle by named after the scientist Hans krebs who first elucidated it in flight muscles of pigeon in this reaction hydrogen atoms are removed from acetyl coenzyme and transferred to the coenzymes for further processing in the electron transport system the cycle is also called citric acid cycle means CAC because the formation of citric acid in the first step of this cycle or it is also called TCA cycle because many intermediate compound formed in the cycle have three carboxyl groups the reactions of the crap cycles require the presence of Oxygen and are confined to mitochondrial matrix
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