Question

Alternate name of Krebs' cycle is

• A. $TCA$ cycle
• B. citric acid cycle
• C. both (a) and (b)
• D. none of these

Answer 1

Answer: (C)

both (a) and (b)

Answer 2

Krebs' cycle was discovered by Sir Hans Krebs in $1937$ (Nobel Prize in $1953$) and thus is named so. Krebs' cycle is also called as citric acid cycle or tricarboxylic acid cycle ($TCA$ cycle) after the name of its first product. Citric acid is a tricarboxylic $6$-carbon compound.