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Q. How many turns of Calvin cycle are required to : produce one molecule of glucose?

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Each Calvin cycle consume one carbon molecule from $ C{{O}_{2}} $ in one turn. Glucose is a hexose sugar containing six carbon, therefore to produce one molecule of glucose, the Calvin cycle turn six times,