Photorespiration

Watch this lecture, which discusses an alternate mechanism of the Calvin cycle called photorespiration. You should be able to describe what happens when ribulose-bisphosphate carboxylase-oxygenase (RuBisCO) interacts with O2 instead of CO2 because of concentration differences.


Source: Khan Academy, https://youtu.be/zxxc8O_ktjU
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