Organic acids are rich in oxygen thus less oxygen is required during their oxidation.

True

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In organic acids the proportion of oxygen to carbon is very high. Therefore they release oxygen during their oxidation. Therefore the oxygen to carbon dioxide ratio during respiratory oxidation is greater than 1.

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