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The Calvin Cycle only occurs in this type of cell.
What is a plant cell?
This three-carbon sugar is the main product of the Calvin Cycle.
What is glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate (G3P)?
This first phase of the Calvin Cycle incorporates carbon dioxide one at a time.
What is Carbon Fixation?
The stage of photosynthesis provides the molecules needed for the Calvin Cycle.
What are light-dependent reactions?
The Calvin Cycle needs to take place this amount of time to produce one net synthesis of G3P.
What is 3?
This is where the Calvin Cycle occurs.
What is the stroma?
This molecule is formed through Carbon Fixation.
What is 3-phosphoglycerate?
This third phase of the Calvin Cycle uses 5 G3P molecules to regenerate 3 molecules of RuBP by using 3 ATP. This prepares the cycle to take in CO2 again.
What is Regeneration of RuBP?
This enzyme is essential in the Calvin Cycle.
What is Rubisco?
This area captures solar energy for light dependent reactions.
What is the thylakoid membrane?
After the Calvin Cycle produces ADP and NADP+, they then undergo this specific type of process to be reused and re-energized into these new molecules.
What is the molecules are recycled back into the light-dependent reactions and are turned into ATP and NADPH?
This second phase of the Calvin Cycle uses 6 ATP to convert 3-phosphoglycerate into 1,3-bisphosphoglycerate. 6 NADPH donate electrons to convert 1,3-bisphosphoglycerate into G3P.
What is Reduction?
This is a metabolic process in plants that consumes oxygen and releases carbon dioxide that occurs when the enzyme binds to oxygen instead of carbon dioxide.
What is photorespiration?
Triple Play
Name the three and amount of each output of the Calvin Cycle.
What is 1 G3P?
What is 9 ADP?
What is 6 NADP+?
This process turns inorganic carbon dioxide into organic sugar molecules.
What is the Calvin Cycle?
Triple Play
Name the three and the amount of each input of the Calvin Cycle.
What is 3 CO2?
What is 9 ATP?
What is 6 NADPH?
This term is another name for the Calvin Cycle.
What is a C3 pathway?