Respiration in plants : Glycolysis Respiration is the process by which living cells break down complex high-energy food molecules into simple low energy molecules, releasing the energy trapped within …
Krebs Cycle or Citric Acid or Tricarboxylic Acid Cycle (TCA) Hans Krebs discovered the cycle. The cycle is also termed as citric acid cycle or tricarboxylic acid (TCA) cycle …
Chemosynthesis The process of manufacture of food from inorganic raw materials by using chemical energy is termed as chemosynthesis. There are some organisms that are able to manufacture all …
Crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM pathway) Crassulacean acid metabolism is a mechanism of photosynthesis which occurs in succulents. Succulents are plants that generally grow in acid habitat or in extreme …
Factors Affecting Photosynthesis Some of the factors such as light, water, carbondioxide, temperature and chlorophyll control the process of photosynthesis. In the absence of any one of these factors …
Photorespiration: C2 cycle Photorespiration is a process which involves oxidation of organic compounds in plants by oxygen in the presence of light. Like normal respiration, this process also releases …
Hatch and Slack pathway: C4 Pathway M.D. Hatch and C. R. Slack in 1967, demonstrated an alternate pathway of carbon dioxide fixation, in higher plants found in tropical region. …
Dark Reaction of Photosynthesis : Calvin cycle/C3 cycle The dark reaction or light independent reaction of photosynthesis reduces carbon dioxide to glucose. These reactions take place in the stroma …
Photosynthesis : Photochemical or Light Reaction Synthesis of carbohydrate by autotrophic plants from carbondioxide and water, using energy from sunlight inside green plastid chloroplast is termed as photosynthesis. Following …
Photosynthetic pigments A pigment is a molecule that can absorb light in visible range. Photosynthetic pigments are fat soluble. All types of photosynthetic pigments are located in plastids such …
