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A scientist studies the Krebs cycle in a laboratory.

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.
krebs

A scientist studies the Krebs cycle in a laboratory.

Noun
  1. English biochemist (born in Germany) who discovered the Krebs cycle (1900-1981)

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