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Calvin cycle
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the part of photosynthesis in which stored energy is used to make sugar from carbon dioxide; the process by which glucose is made
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carbon cycle
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the global cycle through which carbon dioxide is constantly being fixed into sugars (and other macromolecules) which, in turn, are oxidized back into CO2.
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chromatography
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laboratory technique by which Calvin analyzed the experimentally manipulated dead algae to see which molecules had incorporated the carbon14, and thus could trace the path of carbon dioxide through the “Calvin cycle”.
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energetic
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total energy relations and transformations of a system
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glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate (G3P)
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a 3 carbon molecule which is exported from the Calvin Cycle to become sugar; the most reduced carbon compound in the Calvin Cycle.
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ribulose bisphosphate (RuBP)
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the molecule which is recycled at the end of the Calvin Cycle; it is responsible for allowing carbon dioxide to be fixed and mutates so that it regenerates and produces G3P.
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rubisco
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the most abundant protein on Earth, it helps to join one molecule of incoming carbon dioxide with one molecule of RuBP
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stoma (pl. stomata)
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pores in plant leaves through which carbon dioxide can diffuse and oxygen can escape.
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