Lecture outline 27
11/02/01 

Photosynthesis

• Calvin Benson cycle
• evidence for 3PG as initial product of CO2 fixation
• evidence for RuBP as initial CO2 acceptor
• yields of the Calvin Benson cycle
• Relationship of cellular respiration and photosynthesis
• Photorespiration
• Rubisco is an oxygenase as well as a carboxylase
• C3 and C4 plants
• CAM plants