Is There a Krebs Cycle?

So much of life is just like these strings of six carbons that have hydrogens or oxygens. And the Krebs cycle, I guess the crucial bit is that what you're getting is you have CO2 and hydrogen that gives you these carboxylic acids. So then those things then lead to amino acids and sugars, which are building blocks of a nucleo. That's basically what we're doing in our own mitochondria. We're burning hydrogen in oxygen, it's fuel for rocket fuel but also conserving energy as we do so.

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