Biology 2e
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Author: Matthew Douglas, Jung Choi, Mary Ann Clark
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Chapter 8, Problem 31CTQ
Why does it take three turns of the Calvin cycle to produce G3P, the initial product of photosynthesis?
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1) When a leaf on an oak tree absorbs 15,440 photons, how many glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate molecules can be produced by the Calvin cycle?
b)When a leaf on an oak tree absorbs 15,440 photons, how many glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate molecules can be produced by the Calvin cycle?
Name the process of conversion of ADP into ATP during the first phase of photosynthesis.
Which of the following terms regarding the Calvin cycle are mismatched?
a.) rubisco and ATP production
b.) PGAL and rearranged from glucose
c.) carbon fixation and stroma
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