What does the 'C' stand for in the CAM pathway of photosynthesis?
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Crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM) is a carbon fixation pathway in some photosynthetic plants. CAM is usually found in plants living under arid conditions, including those found in the desert (for example, cacti or pineapple). It is named after the plant family it was first discovered in, the Crassulaceae.
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C4 carbon fixation is one of three methods, along with C3 and CAM photosynthesis, used by land plants to "fix" carbon dioxide (binding the gaseous molecules to dissolved compounds inside the plant) for sugar production through photosynthesis. Along with CAM photosynthesis, C4 fixation is an improvement over the simpler and more ancient C3 carbon fixation strategy used by most plants. Both methods overcome the tendency of rubisco (the first enzyme in the Calvin cycle) to photorespire, or waste energy by using oxygen to break down carbon compounds to CO2. C4 plants separate rubisco from atmospheric oxygen, fixing carbon in the mesophyll cells and using oxaloacetate and malate to ferry the fixed carbon to rubisco and the rest of the Calvin cycle enzymes isolated in the bundle-sheath cells. The intermediate compounds both contain four carbon atoms, hence the name C4.\n\n\nmetabolic pathway for carbon fixation in photosynthesis. This process converts carbon dioxide and ribulose bisphosphate (RuBP, a 5-carbon sugar) into 3-phosphoglycerate through the following reaction:\n\n    6 CO2 + 6 RuBP → 12 3-phosphoglycerate\n\nThis reaction occurs in all plants as the first step of the Calvin cycle. In C4 plants, carbon dioxide is drawn out of malate and into this reaction rather than directly from the air.\n\nPlants that survive solely on C3 fixation (C3 plants) tend to thrive in areas where sunlight intensity is moderate, temperatures are moderate, carbon dioxide concentrations are around 200 ppm or higher, and ground water is plentiful. The C3 plants, originating during Mesozoic and Paleozoic era, predate the C4 plants and still represent approximately 95% of Earth's plant biomass.
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1. The stoma\n2. rate of photosynthesis doesn't depend on only CO2. Other factors such as sunlight and water must be taken into consideration
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"C3 and C4 Plants\n\nAlmost all plant life on Earth can be broken into two categories based on the way they assimilate carbon dioxide into their systems.\n\nC3 plants include more than 95 percent of the plant species on earth. (Trees, for example, are C3 plants.)\n\nC4 plants include such crop plants as sugar cane and corn. They are the second most prevalent photosynthetic type.\n\nDuring the first steps in CO2 assimilation, C3 plants form a pair of three carbon-atom molecules. C4 plants, on the other hand, initially form four carbon-atom molecules.\n\nIt turns out that the important difference between C3 and C4 species for rising CO2 levels is that C3 species continue to increase photosynthesis with rising CO2 , while C4 species do not. So, C3 plants that can respond readily to higher CO2 levels, and C4 plants can make only limited responses.\n\nThus increased CO2 likely will mean that some plant species will be stronger, more prolific, and may overwhelm those less able to benefit. The nature of plant populations in various areas probably will change; more sedges in place of grasses in marshlands, for example, consequences we don't yet know."
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All green plants need light to make carbohydrates,their food, which in common terms we say starch,thro' photosynthesis.For this photosynthesis, plant requires Sunlight,chlorophyll & water.
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When plants utilize sunlight to make carbohydrates from carbon dixode, and water in the chlorophyll.\nThe equation:\n6C02+6H20=C6H12O6+602
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b\nbecause photosynthesis is a anabolic process whereby the plant uses simple material to synthesis hexose sugar like glucose
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Photosynthesis uses the energy of light to make the sugar, glucose. A simple general equation for photosynthesis follows.\n\n6 CO2 + 12 H2O + light → C6H12O6 + 6 O2 + 6 H2O\nCarbon Dioxide + Water + Light energy → Glucose + Oxygen + Water\nPhotosynthesis occurs in two stages. In the first phase light-dependent reactions or photosynthetic reactions (also called the Light reactions) capture the energy of light and use it to make high-energy molecules. During the second phase, the light-independent reactions (also called the Calvin-Benson Cycle, and formerly known as the Dark Reactions) use the high-energy molecules to capture carbon dioxide (CO2) and make the precursors of glucose.\n\nIn the light-dependent reactions the pigment chlorophyll absorbs light and loses an electron that travels down an electron transport chain producing the high energy molecules NADPH and ATP. The chlorophyll molecule regains its electron by taking one from water, a process that releases oxygen gas.\n\nIn the Light-independent or dark reactions the enzyme RuBisCO captures CO2 from the atmosphere and in a complex process called the Calvin-Benson cycle releases 3-carbon sugars which are later combined to form glucose.\n\nPhotosynthesis may simply be defined as the conversion of light energy into chemical energy by living organisms. It is affected by its surroundings and the rate of photosynthesis is affected by the concentration of carbon dioxide, light intensity and the temperature.
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Photosynthesis (photo=light, synthesis=putting together), generally, is the synthesis of sugar from light, carbon dioxide and water, with oxygen as a waste product. It is arguably the most important biochemical pathway known; nearly all life depends on it. It is an extremely complex process, comprised of many coordinated biochemical reactions. It occurs in higher plants, algae, some bacteria, and some protists, organisms collectively referred to as photoautotrophs.\n\nPhotosynthesis uses the energy of light to make the sugar, glucose. A simple general equation for photosynthesis follows.\n\n6 CO2 + 12 H2O + light → C6H12O6 + 6 O2 + 6 H2O\ncarbon dioxide + water + light energy → glucose + oxygen + water\nPhotosynthesis occurs in two stages. In the first phase light-dependent reactions or photosynthetic reactions (also called the Light reactions) capture the energy of light and use it to make high-energy molecules. During the second phase, the light-independent reactions (also called the Calvin-Benson Cycle, and formerly known as the Dark Reactions) use the high-energy molecules to capture carbon dioxide (CO2) and make the precursors of glucose.
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CH3CH2C(CH3)3.\nI guess you forgot to type the C before the parenthesis. If you didn't forget, then none of the answers is correct (you would be missing a carbon atom).\n\nChem-man I would have contacted you in private about this but you do not give us the option to e-mail you. I have seen several of your answers prompting askers to verify your answer through echemistryhelp. I checked the website and it is not a free one; you post a question and pay for the answer. I'd say that this is a form of indirect advertisement  which is against the community guidelines. Please refrain from doing that or I will have to report you.
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During photosynthesis, light energy is converted into chemical potential energy.
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Photosynthesis is an important biochemical process in which plants, algae, and some bacteria convert the energy of sunlight to chemical energy with the help of Chilorophyll.Chlorophyll is a chlorin pigment, which is structurally similar to porphyrin pigments such as heme. At the center of the porphyrin ring is a magnesium ion. This has various side chains, usually including a long phytol chain. In plant photosynthesis, incoming light is absorbed by chlorophyll and other accessory pigments in the antenna complexes of photosystem I and photosystem II. The antenna pigments are predominantly chlorophyll a, chlorophyll b and carotenoids; their absorption spectra are non-overlapping, this serves to broaden the specific bandwidths of light these individual compounds absorb during the process of photosynthesis.Each antenna complex has between 250 and 400 pigment molecules, and the energy they absorb is shuttled by resonance energy transfer to a specialized chlorophyll a at the reaction center of each photosystem. When either of the two chorophyll a molecules at the reaction center absorb energy, an electron is excited and transferred to an electron-acceptor molecule, leaving an electron hole in the donor chlorophyll. In a poorly-understood reaction, electrons from water molecules participate in an oxidiation reaction, where the hole from the donor chlorophyll is filled (recombined with another electron), and diatomic oxygen is produced. Resulting chemical energy originating from the initial excited electron is eventually captured in the form of ATP and NADPH, and is then ultimately used to convert carbon dioxide (CO2) to carbohydrates. This CO2 fixation process results in the conversion (or an integrated external quantum efficiency) of 3% to 6% of the total incident solar radiation, with a theoretical maximum efficiency of 11%.
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A CAM plant stores carbon as organic acids for use when it closes its stomata to prevent water loss. C3 and C4 plants use 3 carbon and 4 carbon molecules respectively for use in the calvin cycle.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photosynthesis#Factors_affecting_photosynthesis\n\n=)
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I would say it is the leaf of a plant or the plant itself.  The leaf gives off oxygen (the waste product) during photosynthesis.\n\nOr: (I grabbed this off Wikipedia)\nphotosynthesis uses water as an electron donor which is oxidized into molecular oxygen by the absorption of a photon by the photosynthetic reaction centre.
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Hooooo.OK U want all explanation in yahoo answers?I Will try\n\nIN photosynthesis the sunlight energy is used by green plants to prepare food materials.\nn light reaction the sun light activates chlorophyll molecules so that they make NADDP2 and NADH2.These two in Calvin cycle reduce the co2+h2o in to glucose molecule\n\nIN respiration the reverse happens Of course in different steps\nGlucose molecule in respiration (it is a 6 carbon molecule6H12O6) passes through 3 phases to release the energy in the form of ATP(remember solar energy is taken in p.s to make glucose molecule)\n\nIn GLYCOLYSIS of respiration g;ucose divides in to two pyruvic acids which is aC3co,mpound (2X3=6CARBON glucose)\n\nIn KREBSCYCLE THE pyruvic acik(c3)com pound splits in to 3 co2 and while doing so , it producesNADPH2 nd NADH2\n\nINthe last phase the ELECTRON TRANSPORT  the reduced powers or NADH2 AND NADPH2  are oxidised  (at this stage it takes in oxygen_) in to energy(ATP)and co2\nso the end product in respiration is carbondioxide and energ y in the form of ATP
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photosynthesis or the overall equation for carbon fixation, which is sometimes referred to as carbon reduction, in green plants is:\n\nn CO2 + 2n H2O + ATP + NADPH → (CH2O)n + n O2 + n H2O, \n\nwhere n is defined according to the structure of the resulting carbohydrate. however, since hexose sugars and starch are the primary products, the following generalized equation is often used to represent carbon reduction.\n\n6 CO2 + 12 H2O + ATP + NADPH → C6H12O6 + 6 O2 + 6 H2O