... individual enzymes However, the study of the enzymes of the tricarboxylic acid cycle necessarily also entails the study of the several enzymes involved in the glyoxylate cycle in plants, because ... complex, the tricarboxylic acid cycle, and the glyoxylate cycle by examining the individual phylogenies of the 21 subunits comprising the 14 enzymes of these pathways as they occur in eukaryotes, ... if one considers the evolution of all of the enzymes of the pathway (Fig 4), it is clear that only about half of the enzymes of the tricarboxylic acid cycle, the major pathway of carbon metabolism...