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    C4 photosynthesis is more efficient than C3 photosynthesis in tropical climates because it concentrates carbon dioxide around rubisco, avoiding oxygenation. CAM photosynthesis is advantageous in desert climates because it allows plants to take up carbon dioxide at night, preventing water loss. Rubisco's function is to supply carbon dioxide to the Calvin cycle, but it will catalyze the breakdown of glucose through photorespiration if the carbon dioxide to oxygen ratio is too low, which could be seen as a "mistake". This "mistake" may have evolved because rubisco first evolved when Earth had a higher carbon dioxide and lower oxygen atmosphere, so photorespiration was not an issue.

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    C4 photosynthesis is more efficient than C3 photosynthesis in tropical climates because it concentrates carbon dioxide around rubisco, avoiding oxygenation. CAM photosynthesis is advantageous in desert climates because it allows plants to take up carbon dioxide at night, preventing water loss. Rubisco's function is to supply carbon dioxide to the Calvin cycle, but it will catalyze the breakdown of glucose through photorespiration if the carbon dioxide to oxygen ratio is too low, which could be seen as a "mistake". This "mistake" may have evolved because rubisco first evolved when Earth had a higher carbon dioxide and lower oxygen atmosphere, so photorespiration was not an issue.

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    C3 C4 CAM Short No Answers

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    C4 photosynthesis is more efficient than C3 photosynthesis in tropical climates because it concentrates carbon dioxide around rubisco, avoiding oxygenation. CAM photosynthesis is advantageous in desert climates because it allows plants to take up carbon dioxide at night, preventing water loss. Rubisco's function is to supply carbon dioxide to the Calvin cycle, but it will catalyze the breakdown of glucose through photorespiration if the carbon dioxide to oxygen ratio is too low, which could be seen as a "mistake". This "mistake" may have evolved because rubisco first evolved when Earth had a higher carbon dioxide and lower oxygen atmosphere, so photorespiration was not an issue.

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    1.

    What makes C4 photosynthesis more efficient than C3 photosynthesis in


    tropical climates?

    2. How is CAM photosynthesis advantageous in desert climates?

    3. Photosynthesis evolved very early in Earth’s history. Central to the evolution


    of photosynthesis was the evolution of the enzyme rubisco (an abbreviation for
    ribulose bisphosphate carboxylase oxidase). To the best of our knowledge, all
    photosynthetic plants use rubisco. Rubisco’s function is to supply carbon dioxide
    to the Calvin cycle; however, it does this only if the ratio of carbon dioxide to
    oxygen is relatively high. (For comparison, a relatively high ratio of carbon
    dioxide to oxygen is 0.03% carbon dioxide to 20% oxygen.) When the carbon
    dioxide-to-oxygen ratio becomes low, the role of rubisco switches and it catalyzes
    photorespiration, the breakdown of glucose to carbon dioxide and water.

    a. Why could we call photorespiration a “mistake” in the functioning of the cell?

    b. Rubisco is thought to have evolved when Earth had a reducing atmosphere.


    How does this help explain this “mistake”?

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