the various types of metabolic processes keep an organism alive. There are various types of metabolic processes that takes place in the body of living organism.
These are cellular respiration, reproduction, excretion, digestion et cetera. Every living cell has these processes going on in their body to keep them alive.
Living organism need energy to carry out these processes which they get by eating food.
Glycolysis and the TCA cycle are linked by the linking reaction catalysed by pyruvate dehydrogenase complex. Pyruvic acid produced at the end of glycolysis is transported to the matrix of mitochondria, where it undergoes oxidative decarboxylation to produce acetyl CoA. Acetyl CoA enters the TCA cycle.
