Light independent reaction

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• Carbon Dioxide

• Glycerate 3-Phosphate or GP

• Triose Phosphate

• Ribulose 5-Phosphate

• Ribulose Bisphosphate Carboxylase (RuBisCo)

• Ribulose Bisphosphate (RuBP)

• Triose Phosphate used to create hexose sugars from the calvin cycle's 

• 12ATP + 12 NADPH

• 12ADP + 12 NADP

• 6ATP

• 6ADP

• This is the enzyme responsible for fixing carbon to RuBP however it is inhibited by Oxygen

• 2 molecules of this are formed after the very brief 6 carbon intermediary substance breaks 

• Comes from the light dependent reactions

• 6 turns of the carbon cycle are needed to form 1 hexose sugar like glucose

• About 1/6 of the triose phosphate goes to hexose sugars the rest is used to resynthesise Ribulose 5-phosphate for RuBp to fix another carbon