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What is carbon fixation Where does it occur and how does it occur?
Carbon fixation is the process by which inorganic carbon is added to an organic molecule. Carbon fixation occurs during the light independent reaction of photosynthesis and is the first step in the C3 or Calvin Cycle.
Why does carbon fixation occur in the stroma?
Light-dependent reactions harness energy from the sun to produce ATP and NADPH. These energy-carrying molecules travel into the stroma where the Calvin cycle reactions take place. This process is called carbon fixation, because CO2 is “fixed” from its inorganic form into organic molecules.
Where does carbon-fixation take place and plants?
The Calvin cycle fixes carbon in the chloroplasts of plants and algae, and in the cyanobacteria. It also fixes carbon in the anoxygenic photosynthesis in one type of proteobacteria called purple bacteria, and in some non-phototrophic proteobacteria.
Where does carbon-fixation occur in chloroplasts?
chloroplast stroma
The carbon-fixation reactions, which begin in the chloroplast stroma and continue in the cytosol, produce sucrose and many other organic molecules in the leaves of the plant. The sucrose is exported to other tissues as a source of both organic molecules and energy for growth.
Where do Calvin cycle occur?
Unlike the light reactions, which take place in the thylakoid membrane, the reactions of the Calvin cycle take place in the stroma (the inner space of chloroplasts).
Where does co2 fixation occur in C4?
mesophyll cells
C4 plants—including maize, sugarcane, and sorghum—avoid photorespiration by using another enzyme called PEP during the first step of carbon fixation. This step takes place in the mesophyll cells that are located close to the stomata where carbon dioxide and oxygen enter the plant.
Where does carbon fixation occur in chloroplasts?
Where do the carbon fixation reactions take place in photosynthetic prokaryotes?
chloroplasts
The Calvin-Benson cycle (named for Melvin Calvin [1911–1997] and Andrew Benson [1917–2015]), the biochemical pathway used for fixation of CO2, is located within the cytoplasm of photosynthetic bacteria and in the stroma of eukaryotic chloroplasts.