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Explain how the Calvin cycle is an example of a biochemical pathway?
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They both are a series of linked reactions.
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Who received the Nobel prize for figuring out the biochemical pathway that produces glucose?
Melvin Calvin
Who received the nobel peace prize for figuring out the biochemical pathway used by plants to make glucose?
Melvin Calvin.
Why is photosynthesis referred as a biochemical pathway?
Because the simple ingredients that the plant takes up such as water, sunlight and carbon dioxide are converted into complex molecules such as glucose (and oxygen). The chemical reactions that occur in photosynthesis is a anabolic pathway.
Who received the Nobel prize for figuring out the biochemical pathway used by plants to make glucose?
Melvin Ellis Calvin, (along with Andrew Benson and James Bassham who were not awarded the prize)
Name the metabolic pathway of photosynthesis in which carbon dioxide is converted into glucose using ATP?
The Calvin cycle, or the light independent reaction.
What is the most common method of carbon dioxide fixation?
The Calvin cycle is the most widespread carbon dioxide fixation pathway in bacteria
What events occur during the Calvin cycle?
The Calvin Cycle has 3 series of reactions. They are Carbon Dioxide fixation, Carbon dioxide reduction, and regeneration of the first substrate RuBP ( ribulose 1,5 bisphosphate). It also produces ATP. Glucose is its outcome which is G3P (glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate).
Is Calvin harris example?
No
Is the Calvin-Benson cycle the same thing as Cā cycle?
It is called C 3 pathway , or dark reaction or light independent reaction .
How does the hatch slack pathway compare with the Calvin cycle?
C3 carbon fixation or the Calvin cycle is a metabolic pathway for carbon fixation in photosynthesis. This process converts co2 and ribulose bisphosphate into 3-phosphoglycerate through the following reaction: 6 CO2 + 6 RuBP → 12 3-phosphoglycerate In C4 , carbon dioxide is drawn out of malate and into this reaction rather than directly from the air. Since every CO2 molecule has to be fixed twice, the C4 pathway is more energy-consuming than the C3 pathway. The C3 pathway requires 18 ATP for the synthesis of one molecule of glucose while the C4 pathway requires 30 ATP. But since otherwise tropical plants lose more than half of photosynthetic carbon in photorespiration, the C4 pathway is an adaptive mechanism for minimizing the loss.
Why is the Calvin cycle sometimes called the dark reactions?
Photosynthesis, mainly the dark reactions which are responsible for the direct production of the product, is a reaction pathway that builds up a complex molecule from smaller molecules, so it is an anabolic pathway. When catabolic means breaking down {repeat: what does a cat do to your furniture} then anabolic means building up.
Occurs in plants that have a specialized chemical pathway that allows them to capture even very low levels of carbon dioxide and pass it to the Calvin cycle?
C4 Photosynthesis
