Krebs
Definition
Proper noun A surname, most famously associated with Sir Hans Adolf Krebs, a German-born British biochemist and physician. He is renowned for his Nobel Prize-winning discovery of two fundamental metabolic cycles in living cells.
Examples of Usage
- Proper noun:
- Sir Hans Krebs was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1953.
- The Krebs cycle is a central part of cellular respiration.
- Krebs' research laid the groundwork for modern biochemistry.
Advanced Usage
- The name Krebs is almost exclusively used in a scientific or biographical context to refer to the scientist or the metabolic processes he discovered.
- It can be used attributively to form compound nouns related to his work (see Variants section).
Variants and Related Words
- Krebs cycle (noun): Also known as the citric acid cycle or tricarboxylic acid (TCA) cycle. It is the series of chemical reactions used by all aerobic organisms to generate energy.
- Acetyl-CoA enters the Krebs cycle to produce ATP.
- Krebs-Henseleit cycle (noun): Also known as the urea cycle. The metabolic pathway that produces urea from ammonia, discovered by Krebs and Kurt Henseleit.
- The Krebs-Henseleit cycle is essential for removing nitrogenous waste.
Synonyms
- Sir Hans Krebs
- Hans Adolf Krebs
Related Terms and Context
- Citric acid cycle: A synonym for the Krebs cycle.
- TCA cycle: An abbreviation for the tricarboxylic acid cycle (Krebs cycle).
- Urea cycle: A synonym for the Krebs-Henseleit cycle.
- Cellular respiration: The overall process that includes the Krebs cycle.
- Metabolism: The broader field of study to which Krebs contributed fundamentally.
Noun
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English biochemist (born in Germany) who discovered the Krebs cycle (1900-1981)
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