Question

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What is the significance of Krebs cycle in the economy of the cell?

Answer 1

• The citric acid cycle is the major pathway that functions for many cycles independently.
  
• It is also a major pathway for interconversion of metabolites arising from transamination and deamination of amino acids and providing the substrates for the amino acids synthesis as well as for gluconeogenesis and fatty acid synthesis.
• It is an amphibolic pathway because of it's synthetic and oxidative processes.