For now, let's focus on how RUBISCO helps us fix carbon. The plant needs at least ... .......molecules to generate one sugar precursor. So carbon dioxide needs to be plentiful. The carbon dioxide can be added to (RuBP) with the help of ..... and to create short lived 6-carbon molecules (3 of them). The 6-carbon molecule is almost immediately broken into 6, 3-carbon molecules. The 6, 3-carbon molecules then have ...... added to each end. Adding the phosphates takes an input of 6 of the ATP we generated in the light reactions.After that, we want to rearrange the 6, 3 carbon molecules into ... G3P molecules. Creating G3P takes an input of NADPH to remove the phosphates. G3P makes an excellent building block for larger .... like glucose and especially fructose (commonly called plant sugar). This is the output to storage or use for the plant.

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