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In Calvin cycle, RuBisCO incorporates CO2 into ribulose, 1,5 -bisphosphate which rapidly splits into
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In Calvin cycle, carboxylation is the most crucial step where CO2 is utilised for the carboxylation of RuBP. In this CO2 reacts with ribulose 1,5 biphosphate to yield two molecules of 3-phosphoglycerate, a reaction catalyzed by the chloroplast enzyme ribulose biphosphate carboxylaseoxygenase, referred to as RuBisCO.