TREE PHYSIOLOGY
PHOTOSYNTHESIS
Question
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C3
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C4
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CAM
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none of these
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Detailed explanation-1: -Examples of C4 plants include corn, sorghum, sugarcane, millet, and switchgrass. However, the C4 anatomical and biochemical adaptations require additional plant energy and resources than C3 photosynthesis, and so in cooler environments, C3 plants are typically more photosynthetically efficient and productive.
Detailed explanation-2: -Calvin cycle occurs in the bundle sheath cells of C 4 plantsA.
Detailed explanation-3: -In C4 plants the photosynthesis takes place in a thin-walled mesophyll cell and a 4-carbon acid is handed off to a thick-walled bundle sheath cell, where the Calvin cycle occurs in a chloroplast of that second cell. This protects Calvin cycle from the effects of photorespiration.
Detailed explanation-4: -In C3 plants, the bundle sheath cells do not contain chloroplasts. In C4 plants, the bundle sheath cells contain chloroplasts. In C3 plants, the carbon dioxide fixation takes place only at one place. In C4 plants, the carbon dioxide fixation takes places twice (one in mesophyll cells, second in bundle sheath cells).