Calvin Cycle

• Light-independent reactions

  Also known as the Calvin cycle
• How carbon dioxide enters plants

  1. Carbon dioxide enters through pores (often on the bottom of leaves) called stomata

  2. Plants have the ability to open and close the stomata
• What happens when carbon dioxide enters the stomata

  The carbon dioxide is fixed, meaning with the additional help of a major enzyme, the inorganic CO2 changes to a more usable organic form
• ATP from light-dependent reactions

  Acts as an energy currency
• NADPH from light-dependent reactions

  Supplies reducing power and helps add high energy electrons to the process
• What the fixed CO2, ATP, and NADPH is used for

  Used to make a product that can be converted into glucose
• 6 CO2 + 6 H20 -> C6H1206 + 6 O2
• Calvin Cycle

  A) Rubisco

  B) Glyceraldehyde

  C) phosphate

  D) ATP

  E) NADPH

  F) phosphoglycerate

  G) Stroma

  H) RuBP

  I) Carbon Fixation

  J) Reduction