(i) Why do Green plants start evolving CO2 instead of O2, at high temperatures?

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Dileep Vishwakarma

2 years ago

Solution : On a hot suny day, enzyme RuBP carboxylase becomes active and its affinity for `CO_2` decreases and for `O_2` increases. Consequently more and more photosynthetically fixed carbon is lost by photorespiration.

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