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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.

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The Calvin Cycle is an example of a biochemical pathway because it uses the energy stored in ATP and NADPH during the light reactions to produce organic compounds.

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Why is photosynthesis referred as to a biochemical pathway?

photosynthesis involves a complex series of chemical reactions, in which the product of one reaction is consumed in the next reaction. A series of reactions linked in this way is referred to as a biochemical pathway.


Is photosynthesis biochemistry?

At a certain level of study, photosynthesis is indeed part of biochemistry. Photosynthesis is a biochemical pathway.


Why is photosynthesis reffered to as a biochemical pathway?

Because several biochemical reactions governed by specific enzymes take place from photolysis of water to the formation of carbohydrates by assimilation of CO2.


How is the metabolic pathway in which plants use sunlight to create their own food?

This metabolic pathway comes under anabolism and all biochemical reactions unitedly called photosynthesis.


Is a biochemical pathway of cellular respiration that is anaerobic?

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The shutting down of a biochemical pathway caused by a key enzyme's sensitivity to the level of the pathway's product?

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What is the biochemical pathway that completes the breakdownof glucose in the mitochondria?

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Phytoplankton are a part of which biochemical cycle?

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Pathway of photosynthesis in maize?

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The first pathway of photosynthesis was?

The first pathway of photosynthesis is the light reaction, which is the absorption of light energy from the sun by the chlorophyll in the plant. The pathway that follows this is the dark reaction or carbon fixation.


What is the shutting down of a biochemical pathway caused by a key enzymes sensitivity to the level of the pathways product?

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Which is not a pathway by which plants obtain nitrogen in a usable form?

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