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Q. First dicarboxylic acid formed during TCA cycle is

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Solution:

During the TCA cycle, the first step where a carbon group is lost as carbon dioxide in a decarboxylation reaction the compound having 5 carbon formed is called alpha-ketoglutaric acid.